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Mathematisation of the Science of Motion and the Birth of Analytical Mechanics: A Historiographical Note

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Usually, one speaks of mathematization of a natural or social science to mean that mathematics comes to be a tool of such a science: the language of mathematics is used to formulate its results, and/or some mathematical techniques is employed to obtain these results.

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Panza, M. (2002). Mathematisation of the Science of Motion and the Birth of Analytical Mechanics: A Historiographical Note. In: Cerrai, P., Freguglia, P., Pellegrini, C. (eds) The Application of Mathematics to the Sciences of Nature. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0591-4_19

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