The Science of Mechanics; A Critical and Historical Account of Its Development, by Ernst Mach: Supplement to the 3rd English Ed. Containing the Author's Additions to the 7th German Ed
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ... PUBLISHERS' PREFACE TO THE SUPPLEMENTARY VOLUME The first edition of the English translation by Mr M'Cormack of Mach's Mechanics was published in 1893, and was carefully revised by Professor Mach himself. Since then two other editions of this translation have appeared, in which the alterations ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ... PUBLISHERS' PREFACE TO THE SUPPLEMENTARY VOLUME The first edition of the English translation by Mr M'Cormack of Mach's Mechanics was published in 1893, and was carefully revised by Professor Mach himself. Since then two other editions of this translation have appeared, in which the alterations contained in the successive German editions have been embodied in the form of appendices. In the seventh German edition, however, which appeared at Leipsic (F. A. Brockhaus) in 1912, there have been more profound modifications in the plan of Professor Mach's work, which are shortly referred to in the preface to that edition. Many things are added and some things are omitted. Among the parts omitted are the prefaces to all of the German editions except the first, and a new preface to the seventh edition has been added. The most extensive additions relate to recent historical researches on the work of Galileo's precursors and the early work of Galileo himself; and the book is dedicated to the late Emil Wohlwill, of whose researches much use has been made. In the present English edition, after much thought and consultation with Professor Mach and at the suggestion of Mr Philip E. B. Jourdain, we have adopted a different plan. Mr Jourdain has assumed the responsibility of a revision of the Mechanics on the basis of the seventh German edition, and has signified the alterations to text and appendix in the appendix printed here. The only other addition to the seventh German edition is a portrait of Newton after Kneller's well-known picture. This very welcome addition--no portrait of the greatest of mechanical inquirers having adorned previous editions of the Mechanics--is also given as the frontispiece of the present volume. The reader who possesses the...
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