"Immeasurably superior to Aristotle as a student of mechanics is Archimedes. He is the true originator of mechanics as a science. To him we owe the theory of the centre of gravity (centroid) and of the lever. In his Equiponderance of Planes [On the Equilibrium of Planes] he starts with the axiom that equal weights acting at equal distances on opposite sides of a pivot are in equilibrium, and then endeavours to establish the principle that "in the lever unequal weights are in equilibrium only when they are inversely proportional to the arms from which they are suspended.""
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A History of Physics in its Elementary Branches
A History of Physics in its Elementary Branches including the Evolution of Physical Laboratories by Florian Cajori was first published in 1899. It was written with the hope to improve science teaching, which Cajori felt at the time, was not sutticiently historical.
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