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celestial mechanics Newton’s laws of motion kinematics kinetics electrogasdynamics Hamilton’s principle ballistics hydrokinetics recoil law of action and reaction statics

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Christiaan Huygens

Christiaan Huygens

Dutch scientist and mathematician

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

German philosopher and mathematician

Sir William Rowan Hamilton

Irish mathematician and astronomer

Carl Jacobi

German mathematician

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