"Accordingly, we find Euler and D'Alembert devoting their……" — James Clerk Maxwell
"Accordingly, we find Euler and D'Alembert devoting their talent and their patience to the establishment of the laws of rotation of the solid bodies. Lagrange has incorporated his own analysis of the problem with his general treatment of mechanics, and since his time M. Poinsôt has brought the subject under the power of a more searching analysis than that of the calculus, in which ideas take the place of symbols, and intelligent propositions supersede equations."
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James Clerk Maxwell
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50 Quotes by James Clerk Maxwell
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