TITLE:
Lagrange as a Historian of Mechanics
AUTHORS:
Agamenon R. E. Oliveira
KEYWORDS:
History of Mechanics; Epistemology of Physics; Analytical Mechanics
JOURNAL NAME:
Advances in Historical Studies,
Vol.2 No.3,
September
24,
2013
ABSTRACT: In the first and second parts of his masterpiece, Analytical Mechanics, dedicated to static and dynamics respectively, Lagrange (1736-1813) describes in detail the development of both branches of mechanics from a historical point of view. In this paper this important contribution of Lagrange (Lagrange, 1989) to the history of mechanics is presented and discussed in tribute to the bicentennial year of his death.