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The fifteenth century produced the first great scientific development in mechanics after the Middle Ages with the publication of Nicolas Copernicus’ Der Revolutionibus Orbium. Thereafter, astronomy took center stage, as scientists such as Tycho Brahe, Johannes Kepler, and Galileo Galilei made monumental gains in the science of mechanics. In addition, René Descartes invented analytic geometry, and Isaac Newton produced the first universal laws. In mechanics, Blaise Pascal produced the first computer, called the Pascaline. Mathematics flowered, and with it the tools necessary to model mechanics precisely. By the early eighteenth century mechanists such as the Bernoullis and Leonhard Euler were attempting to model deformable bodies.
Mechanics is the paradise of mathematical sciences because here we come to the fruits of mathematics.
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519)
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Allen, D.H. (2014). Mechanics Reborn. In: How Mechanics Shaped the Modern World. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01701-3_7
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