Helped to resolve the controversy in mathematical physics over the conservation of kinetic energy by improving Newton's definition of force. A biography with references to his work and contemporaries, as well as affiliated organisations.

Biographies of several great scientists, including Kepler, Newton, Galilei and D'Alembert, who made an important contribution to classical mechanics.

Responsible for Hamilton's Principle and the classical Hamiltonian

This site is about Joseph Louis Lagrange and his works on mechanics.

A biography written with reference to his peers; includes quotations and references to his works.

Biographies of Boltzmann, Ehrenfest, Einstein, Gibbs, Maxwell, Mayer, Onsager, Planck, Prigogine and Schrodinger.

This site tells about scientists, who developed the classical mechanics by their discoveries: Archimedes, Aristotle, Nicolaus Copernicus, Leonardo da Vinci, Leonhard Euler, Galileo Galilei, Edmond Halley, Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss, Johannes Kepler, Joseph Louis Lagrange, Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz and Isaac Newton.