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After the completion of this third volume, we have a better, if not fully complete, perspective view of the development of continuum mechanics from the Renaissance (sixteenth century) to the most recent progress early in this twenty-first century.
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Maugin, G.A. (2016). Epilogue. In: Continuum Mechanics through the Ages - From the Renaissance to the Twentieth Century. Solid Mechanics and Its Applications, vol 223. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26593-3_12
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