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Mach. It has a 18-pages long bibliography listing 244 full references (i.
e. with title and both first and last page, so often missing, unfortunately,
in physical articles and books), for which the reader wishing to pursue
the topic will be grateful to the author. I also appreciated the author's
awareness that in order to make fundamental theoretical advances in
physics it is very important to look back and re-examine the history of
one's subject. I think that science will only progress if more people will
stop accepting theories as articles of faith and begin to question the
received opinions with the necessary persistence and boldness (both
intellectual and professional). In this the author has been totally
successful, and deserves the appreciation of all who think that the end
of science, and of physics in particular, is by no means in sight, and that
science can only thrive by relentless questioning and proliferation of
alternative approaches.
Review of André K. T. Assis, Relational Mechanics
Montreal, Apeiron, 1999, pp. 285, US$ 25
(Marco Mamone Capria)
E-mail: mamone@dipmat.unipg.it