A Treatise on the Theory of Screws (Classic Reprint)

Poinsot and Chasles, Hamilton and Klein. The result of my labours I have ventured to designate as The Theory of Screws. As the theory became unfolded I communicated the results in a long series of memoirs read chiefly before the Royal I rish A cademy. To this learned body I tender mygrateful thanks for the continual kindness with which they have encouraged this work. I published in 1876 a small volume entitled The Theory of Screws: AS tudy in theD ynamics of a Rigid Body. This contained an account of the subject so far as it was then known. But in a few years great advances were made, the geometrical theories were much extended, and the Theory of Screw-chains opened up a wide field of exploration. The volume just referred to became quite out of date. A comprehensive account of the subject as it stood in 1886 was given in the German work Theoretische Mechanik starrer Systeme: A uf Grund derM ethoden undA rheiten und mdt einem Vorworte vonS ir Robert S. Ball, herausgegehen von Harry Gravelius, Berlin, 1889. This work was largely a translation of the volume of 1876 supplemented by the subsequent memoirs, and Dr Gravelius made some further additions. The theory was still advancing, so that in a few years this considerable volume ceased to present an adequate view of the subject.
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