Questo si sono domandati grandi scienziati, che a queste leggi fondamentali sono arrivati.
Accordingly, we find Euler and D'Alembert devoting their talent and their
patience to the establishment of the laws of rotation of the solid bodies.
Lagrange has incorporated his own analysis of the problem with his general
treatment of mechanics, and since his time M. Poinsôt has brought the subject
under the power of a more searching analysis than that of the calculus, in which
ideas take the place of symbols, and intelligent propositions supersede
equations.
— James Clerk Maxwell. J. C. Maxwell on Louis Poinsôt (1777-1859) in 'On a
Dynamical Top' (1857). In W. D. Niven (ed.), The Scientific Papers of James
Clerk Maxwell (1890), Vol. 1, 248.
On a Dynamical Top - James Clerk Maxwell
Da un lato l'enfasi della "traduzione numerica della realtà", dall'altro quella dell' "intelligere intuitivo". La dualità, gli opposti cooperanti.
Intelligere intuitivo.