The Dynamics of Particles | Arthur Gordon Webster | Dover 1959 Near Fine

This volume is the 1959 Dover Publications unabridged reprint of Arthur Gordon Webster's Second Edition, preserving in full the authoritative revised text and illustrations that made the work a cornerstone of advanced mechanics. Dover's photographic reissue presents the complete Second Edition without alteration, bringing back into circulation a text that had been out of print for decades and was long relied upon by physicists, mathematicians, and engineers working in classical mechanics, elasticity, hydrodynamics, and applied mathematical physics. The book is handsomely produced in Dover's distinctive mid-century typographic style and remains remarkably fresh in appearance, with clean, bright pages and crisp mathematical notation throughout. Particularly noteworthy is the inclusion of original laid-in ephemera: the 1959 purchase receipt from Ed Henolt's Berkeley Book Store, a respected West Coast academic bookseller known for serving the University of California community - an uncommon survival that adds tangible provenance and period context. A foundational reference for serious study, this copy represents the first Dover printing of the unabridged Second Edition, valued for its textual fidelity, durability, and historical continuity within the Dover science catalogue. Arthur Gordon Webster (1863-1923) was an American physicist and educator who played a key role in shaping advanced physics instruction in the United States during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A longtime professor at Clark University, he was an early advocate for rigorous theoretical training and helped introduce European developments in mechanics and acoustics to American students. Webster was also a founding member, and later president, of the American Physical Society, and his textbooks and lecture-based works remain respected for their clarity, mathematical rigor, and lasting influence on classical mechanics and applied physics.…