The phrase “o’ clock” originates from “of the clock,” used historically to specify time told by mechanical clocks, which ...
THREE great works laid the foundation of modern mechanics: Galilei's “Discourses on Two New Sciences”(1638), Huygens's “Horo–logium Oscillatorium”(1673), and Newton's “Philosophise ...
Nauenberg, Michael 1994. Newton's early computational method for dynamics. Archive for History of Exact Sciences, Vol. 46, Issue. 3, p. 221.