title: The Oxford Handbook of the History of Physics (Oxford Handbooks)
author: Jed Z. Buchwald
description: <br />"This is a very valuable volume that should be in every physics department library." -- <em>Contemporary Physics</em>
zlib_text: Birkhauser 
  
  Science Networks. Historical Studies
  Founded by Erwin Hiebert and Hans Wußing
  Volume 42
  Edited by Eberhard Knobloch, Helge Kragh and Erhard Scholz
  Editorial Board:
  K. Andersen, Aarhus
  D. Buchwald, Pasadena
  H.J.M. Bos, Utrecht
  U. Bottazzini, Roma
  J.Z. Buchwald, Cambridge, Mass.
  K. Chemla, Paris
  S.S. Demidov, Moskva
  E.A. Fellmann, Basel
  M. Folkerts, München
  P. Galison, Cambridge, Mass.
  I. Grattan-Guinness, London
  J. Gray, Milton Keynes
  R. Halleux, Liège
  S. Hildenbrandt, Bonn
  Ch. Meinel, Regensburg
  J. Peiffer, Paris
  W. Purkert, Bonn
  D. Rowe, Mainz
  A.I. Sabra, Cambridge, Mass.
  Ch. Sasaki, Tokyo
  R.H. Stuewer, Minneapolis
  V.P. Vizgin, Moskva
  
  Danilo Capecchi
  History of Virtual
  Work Laws
  A History of Mechanics Prospective
  Birkhauser 
  
  Danilo Capecchi
  Università La Sapienza, Rome (Italy)
  ISBN 978-88-470-2055-9
  DOI 10.1007/978-88-470-2001-6
  Library of Congress Control Number: 2011941587
  Springer Milan Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London
  © Springer-Verlag Italia 2012
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