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The ancients considered mechanics in a twofold respect: as rational, which proceeds accurately by demonstration, and practical. To practical mechanics all the manual arts belong, from which mechanics took its name.

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Isaac Newton

British physicist and mathematician and founder of modern classical physics

January 4th, 1643 - March 31st, 1727

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