A History of Mechanics includes poignant girlhood recollections and

includes poignant girlhood recollections and her teachings of  "the little way of childhood

giving extensive tables of compounds

He was the first European to explore the Congo River

the exotic settings

A History of Mechanics includes poignant girlhood recollections and"A remarkable work which will remain a document of the first rank for the historian of mechanics." Louis de Broglie In this masterful synthesis and summation of the science of mechanics, Rene Dugas, a leading scholar and educator at the famed Ecole Polytechnique in Paris, deals with the evolution of the principles of general mechanics chronologically from their earliest roots in antiquity through the Middle Ages to the revolutionary developments in