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celestial mechanics Newton’s laws of motion kinematics kinetics electrogasdynamics Hamilton’s principle ballistics law of force law of inertia hydrokinetics statics

Key People

Christiaan Huygens

Christiaan Huygens

Dutch scientist and mathematician

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

German philosopher and mathematician

Sir William Rowan Hamilton

Irish mathematician and astronomer

Carl Jacobi

German mathematician

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