What was mechanical about mechanics
Subtitle: the concept of force between metaphysics and mechanics from Newton to Lagrange
By: J. Christiaan Boudri ; translation, Sen McGlinn.
Series: Boston studies in the philosophy of science -- v. 224
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Dordrecht; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
Subjects: Force and energy.; Mechanics.; Physics -- Philosophy.
Work titles: Mechanische van de mechanica.
Notes: Translation of: Het mechanische van de mechanica : het krachtbegrip tussen metafysica en mechanica van Newton tot Lagrange, the author's thesis (doctoral)--Universiteit Twente, 1994.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-262) and index.