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