What was Mechanical about Mechanics

The Age of Reason is left the Dark Ages of the history of mechanics. Clifford A. Truesdell) 1. 1 THE INVISIBLE TRUTH OF CLASSICAL PHYSICS There are some questions that physics since the days of Newton simply cannot an­ swer. Perhaps the most important of these can be categorized as ''questions of eth­ ics'', and ''questions of ultimate meaning''. The question of humanity''s place in the cosmos and...