Translation:The Origins of Statics

Preface
CHAPTER I: Aristotle and Archimedes (384-322 and 287-212 B.C.)
CHAPTER II: Leonardo da Vinci (1451-1519)
CHAPTER III: Jérôme Cardan (1501-1575)
CHAPTER IV: The Impossibility of Perpetual Motion
CHAPTER V: The Alexandrine Sources of the Statics of the Middle Ages
CHAPTER VI: Statics of the Middle Ages. Jordanus de Nemore