The Origins of Analytic Mechanics in the 18th Century

Marco Panza (1)

1 IHPST - Institut d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques

In the present chapter, I sketch the history of this development, from the introduction of the first variational principles to the elaboration of Lagrange's "analytical mechanics". This is the history of the transformation of mechanics from a geometric science into an analytical one, or even, according to the Lagrange's dictum, into "a branch of analysis".

Mots clés: history of sciences

Domaines: Histoire, Philosophie et Sociologie des sciences

Marco Panza. The Origins of Analytic Mechanics in the 18th Century. Jahnke, Hans Niels. A history of analysis, American Mathematical Society, pp.137-153, 2003. ⟨halshs-00792173⟩