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- From: francis@oas.stanford.edu (Francis Muir)
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- Subject: Re: Accuracy in autobiography (was: GENIUS: Richard Feynman)
- Date: 16 Nov 1992 19:31:05 GMT
- Organization: Stanford Exploration Project
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- Luke Something (Earthwalker?) writes:
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- Perhaps I'm just picking nits here, but my undergrad mechanics
- book claims that Hooke published F = -kx as a latin anagram,
- strictly 1-d. Does Hooke explicitly mention the possibility
- of displacement having a component orthogonal to applied force?
- If not, the 1st class mechanic in question would be Lame, who
- postdated Newton.
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- I have never forgiven Lame for giving his name to two constants that,
- for the past 200 years, have seduced authors of undergraduate mechanics
- text-books into teaching that the world is isotropic. Lame was a Zero.
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- Fido
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