Title: Very good, but ....
Product review: This book is refered by the publishers as the best book on history of mechanics. Indeed, it is a very complete work, showing in cronological order all the developments and contributions made by a great number of scientists and mathematicians, many of them famous but including also many not-so-famous and even not known. The book is very well written. However, when I bought this book I was expecting something more informal, more enjoyable to read. The feeling I have is that the book is somewhat too formal, arid, like the common textbooks. Although, it is still a very fine, very good book, and I suggest that every physics student to read it.
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