Chapter II: How Work Is Done

(p. 31). For study of Archimedes, giving a detailed account of his discoveries, see vol. I., p. 196 _seq._ It will be of interest also to review, in connection with this chapter, the story of the growth of knowledge of mechanics in the time of Galileo, Descartes, and Newton as told in the chapters entitled "Galileo and the New Physics," vol. II. (p. 93 _seq._), and "The Success of Galileo in Physical Science," vol. II., p. 204 _seq._