Excerpt from The Mechanical Euclid: Containing the Elements of Mechanics and Hydrostatics Demonstrated After the Manner of the Elements of Geometry The wish to put the elementary portions chanics in a form in which they might be studied in Universities, led me, publish a little work under the title Principles of Mechanics, with Historical Illustrations. But the effect of mixed as a discipline is, I conceive, likely to be answered by the more rigorous scheme of which the University has sanctioned, than treatment of the subject as was then the Historical Illustrations, which ap some interest in the public, are gi completely in the History to which I ferred. I shall therefore consider these First 5 ciples as now superseded, and shall not repu the work. The Practical Illustrations may be' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.