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Friction-Induced Vibrations and Self-Organization
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Friction-Induced Vibrations and Self-Organization

by Michael Nosonovsky, Vahid Mortazavi
August 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
333 pages
11h 16m
English
CRC Press
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personal experience as a source of knowledge, rather than studying the leg-
acy of the scholars of the past.
Many natural scientists were also inuenced by mysticism. Even Isaac
Newton himself put a lot of effort into the research of what would be called
today occult studies, which constitutes a signicant part of his written leg-
acy. However, in the seventeenth century it was realized that empirical sci-
ence has a method of its own, which is quite different from that of magic
or mystics with their individual visionary “experiences.” In mechanics, the
works by Galileo constituted this turn to empirical science, as well as those
by Isaac Newton (1643–1727), Gottfried Leibnitz (1643–1716), Robert ...
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