Lecture

History of Mechanics

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This lecture covers the history and methodology of mechanics, starting with Aristotle and Galileo's dichotomy in the study of celestial and terrestrial bodies, moving on to Kepler's three laws of celestial mechanics, and concluding with Sir Isaac Newton's classical mechanics and the three laws of motion.

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