📚 Kinematics

Motion without its causes: velocity, acceleration and linkage paths, drawn before any force is named.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject kinematics in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Théorie nouvelle de la rotation des corps	Louis Poinsot	1834	7
	Multi-Body Dynamics	Homer Rahnejat	1997	7
	Dynamics of Multibody Systems	Ahmed A. Shabana	2005	6
	Cours de cinématique	René Garnier	1949	5
	Leçons de cinématique, professées à la Sorbonne	Gabriel Xavier Paul Koenigs	1897	4
	Kinematik	Hans Polster	1900	4
	Belgian chiropractic research notes	Henri Gillet	1970	4
	Rational kinematics	Jorge Angeles	1988	4
	An elementary treatise on kinematics and kinetics	Edward John Gross	1876	3
	Kinematics	Charles William MacCord	1883	3
	An elementary treatise on kinematics and dynamics	James Gordon MacGregor	1887	3
	Cours de cinématique théorique & appliquée...	P. Bourguignon	1905	3
	Cours de cinématique	Gaston Julia	1928	3
	Theoretical kinematics	O. Bottema	1979	3
	Kinematics of the six-degree-of-freedom force-reflecting Kraft Master	Robert L. Williams	1991	3
	Kinematics	Jens Wittenburg	2015	3
	Théorie nouvelle de la rotation des corps	Louis Poinsot	1851	2
	Uniplanar kinematics of solids and fluids	George Minchin Minchin	1882	2
	Lehrbuch der Kinematik	Ludwig Ernst Hans Burmester	1888	2
	Advances in robot kinematics	J. Lenarčič	1899	2
	Geometria del movimento	Gian Antonio Maggi	1914	2
	Cinématique et mécanismes	Raoul Bricard	1921	2
	Kinematics	Virgil Moring Faires	1959	2
	Basic graphical kinematics	Harold B. Kepler	1960	2
	Kinematics	Howell Newbold Tyson	1966	2
	La Cinématique	Campbell, Robert	1966	2
	Relativity	Ray O. Skinner	1969	2
	Kinematics of Spherical Mechanisms	C. H. Chiang	1988	2
	Multibody dynamics	Ronald L. Huston	1990	2
	Kinematics, dynamics, and design of machinery	Kenneth J Waldron	2003	2

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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