A Treatise on the Rectilinear Motion and Rotation of Bodies: With a Description of Original Experiments Relative to the Subject

A Treatise on the Rectilinear Motion and Rotation of Bodies: With a Description of Original Experiments Relative to the Subject
by G. Atwood
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Frederick and Deborah Strobl
on November 13, 2014
A treatise on the rectilinear motion and rotation of bodies- with a description of original experiments relative to the subject.

A treatise on the rectilinear motion and rotation of bodies : with a description of original experiments relative to the subject

By G. Atwood. Cambridge: Printed by J. Archdeacon ... for J. & J. Merrill, and J. Deighton ... and T. Cadell ..., 1784.

In this work Atwood essentially discusses Newtonian mechanics, including the description of Atwood's machine. Atwood's intriguing machine was designed to demonstrate the laws of uniformly accelerated motion due to gravity, and was constructed with pulleys. The volume is complete with eight attractive engraved plates.

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Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology