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Nowadays, the Kinematics science may become less important in some fields, nevertheless it is more preponderant in others. The paper focuses on the incipient stages of the Kinematics science, tries to investigate the factors that led to its formation, and emphasizes the influence of organizing thinking in this process, but it does not fully interpret the historical moment. Ampère is considered to be the man who founded Kinematics as science. Therefore, our analysis is mostly oriented towards one of Ampère’s work – Essai sur la philosophie des sciences –, where he lays the foundation of Kinematics of Mechanisms. We also debate the meanings of some expressions used over time to denote the speed ratio of different points of a mechanism, ratio which is also reminded in Ampère’s work.
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Cretu, SM., Suciu, L., Brinzan, G.C. (2013). Considerations About Organizing Thinking and Kinematics. In: Viadero, F., Ceccarelli, M. (eds) New Trends in Mechanism and Machine Science. Mechanisms and Machine Science, vol 7. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4902-3_79
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