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    Hamilton and the Law of Varying Action Revisited

    According to history texts, philosophers searched for a unifying natural law whereby natural phenomena and numbers are related. More than 2300 years ago, Aristotle postulated that nature requires minimum energ...

    C. D. Bailey in Foundations of Physics (2004)

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    The Unifying Laws of Classical Mechanics

    It is shown that, at the time of Euler and Lagrange, a belief led to an assumption. The assumption is applied to derive the principle of least action from the vis viva. The assumption is also applied to derive Ha...

    C. D. Bailey in Foundations of Physics (2002)