From a 1939 review:
"This treatise on classical mechanics contains in fourteen chapters 534 pages of
text. In the first chapter the author discusses briefly the divisions, postulates, and
validity of mechanics. The second of these is more extensively considered in Chapter
X I I on the General Principles of Mechanics, such as: Lagrange's Equations, Hamil-
ton's Principle, Least Action, and Gauss' Least Constrain...
"However, for advanced students wishing to combine a study of vector analysis with mechanics,
or for students specializing in mechanics, it appears to be a very fine presentation."
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