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Excerpt from Rudimentary Mechanics: Being a Concise Exposition of the General Principles of Mechanical Science, and Their Applications
No department of science has probably received more attention from scientific writers than Mechanics. There are numerous treatises on this subject in all the languages of the civilized world, adapted, apparently, to suit the intellectual and pecuniary means of all classes, and including the costly quarto and bulky octavo for the advanced mathematical student, as well as the sixpenny catechism for the use of children. Between these two extremes, books on the subject are innumerable. In adding one more to the number, the writer does not feel any apology to be necessary, because, in the first place, he is not aware that any other treatise, with the same quantity of matter, and with so many engravings, is to be had at so low a price; and, secondly, if he has approached his subject with a proper appreciation of the principles woo.
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