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{{short description|1673 book on pendular motion by Christiaan Huygens}} | author = [[Christiaan Huygens]] ...

{{short description|1713 book on probability and combinatorics by Jacob Bernoulli}} ...mportant historical landmark in not only probability but all combinatorics by a plethora of mathematical historians. The importance of this early work ha ...

...by Italian composer [[Giuseppe Verdi]] in the 19th century, then advocated by the [[Schiller Institute]] beginning in the 1980s with reference to the com ...frequency of 430.54&nbsp;Hz.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C53Om7gAwQ4C&pg=PA151 |page=151 |first=Claus Wilhelm |last=Turtur |title ...

==Huygens, Leibniz, Newton, and Hooke== ...resented. Hence it is not located in nature, but is the result of a choice by the observer. In the first case a mathematical formulation mirrors centrifu ...

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{{short description|1801 double-slit experiment by Thomas Young}} ...le-slit experiment]], performed at the beginning of the nineteenth century by [[Thomas Young (scientist)|Thomas Young]]. This experiment played a major r ...

{{short description|Mechanical treatise by Archimedes}} ...ranslit=perí epipédōn isorropiôn}}) is a treatise by [[Archimedes]] in two books. The first book contains a proof of the law of the [[lever]] and culminates ...

...influence of [[force]]s. Later, methods based on [[energy]] were developed by Euler, [[Joseph-Louis Lagrange]], [[William Rowan Hamilton]] and others, le ...hanics |chapter=Kinematics |page=287 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k4H2AjWh9qQC&pg=PA287 |author=P. P. Teodorescu |isbn=978-1-4020-5441-9 | ...

...The Oxford Handbook of the History of Physics|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1SxoAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA128|date=10 October 2013|publisher=OUP Oxford|isbn=978 [[File:Conic Sections.svg|thumb|240px|right|Mathematics was developed by the Ancient Civilizations for intellectual challenge and pleasure. Surprisi ...

...ge, and it was officially established as an international measurement unit by the [[Metre Convention]] of 1875 at the beginning of the [[Second Industria ...[International Association of Geodesy|International Geodetic Association]] by thirty [[platinum-iridium]] bars kept across the globe.<ref>{{Cite web|url= ...

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...he net result of any and all [[force]]s acting on the object, as described by [[Newton's Second Law]].<ref>{{cite book |title=The Principles of Mechanics ...The Advanced Space Vision System (also known as the Space Vision System or by its acronym SVS) is a [[computer vision]] system designed primarily for [[I ...

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