Eduard Jan Dijksterhuis Quote

Mechanics... was an axiomatic construction; and... its problem could be solved quantitatively by algebraic methods.


Robert Jacobus Forbes and E. J. Dijksterhuis (1963) A History of Science and Technology, vol. I: Ancient Times to the Seventeenth Century, Baltimore.


Mechanics... was an axiomatic construction; and... its problem could be solved quantitatively by algebraic methods.

Mechanics... was an axiomatic construction; and... its problem could be solved quantitatively by algebraic methods.

Mechanics... was an axiomatic construction; and... its problem could be solved quantitatively by algebraic methods.

Mechanics... was an axiomatic construction; and... its problem could be solved quantitatively by algebraic methods.