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Excerpt from A Dissertation on the Development of the Science of Mechanics: Being a Study of the Chief Contributions of Its Eminent Masters, With a Critique of the Fundamental Mechanical Concepts, and a Bibliography of the Science; Embodying Research Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor Of
It was a long time before the distinction between why and how was drawn, but When once the question Why was turned over to the metaphysician and the theologian, and attention was concentrated on how, then mechanics made progress. Men then began to discover how things go, and to try their hand at invention.
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