History of Kinematics from Zeno to Einstein

Teun Koetsier is a mathematician and philosopher, specialist in the history and philosophy of mathematics. He served as associate professor at VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands. In 2019 he was appointed honorary member of IFToMM, and in the same year he received the “Engineer Historian Award” from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) for his Springer book “The Ascent of GIM, the Global Intelligent Machine”.

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“This book is the culmination point of anything that has to do with the history around kinematics. The author is to be praised for all that work, he collected in that book. – Highly recommended!” (Robert W. van der Waall, zbMATH 1555.01003, 2025)