Matter and motion
by James Clerk Maxwell · first published 1876
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…made the same point and tried to figure out what got lost in that game of telephone. (A lot!) Here's a book not exactly for the general reader but that I think is underappreciated: James Clerk Maxwell's Matter and Motion. https://archive.org/details/mattermotion00maxwiala It's a textbook on mechanics assuming a high-school math background.
on “Steven Weinberg: Science books for the general reader” ↗Thank your for the link to Matter and Motion. I had never heard of it, and I'm enjoying what I've read thus far. It reminds me in a way of the Feynman Lectures. The greats often seem to have a way of explaining concepts in the most clear, concise…
on “Steven Weinberg: Science books for the general reader” ↗…out if you want to be challenged and inspired to tackle problems for yourself and perhaps pick up a bit of how Feynman thought. There are very few other introductory texts by physicists of his stature: Matter and Motion by Maxwell, and, well, anything else? (Not counting popularizations; it's a fuzzy distinction, but these are securely on the textbook side.)
on “The Feynman Lectures on Physics (2013)” ↗