📚 Mechanics

Books with mechanics on their catalogue record, first published between 1638 and 2008, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 23 works carrying the subject mechanics in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 47,609 works the catalogue holds under that subject. 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
	Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica	Sir Isaac Newton	1687	104
	Engineering Mechanics, Statics	R. C. Hibbeler	1920	78
	Engineering Mechanics, Statics & Dynamics	R. C. Hibbeler	1974	55
	Mechanics of materials	R. C. Hibbeler	1991	32
	Discorsi e dimostrazioni matematiche	Galileo Galilei	1638	30
	Mécanique analytique	Joseph Louis Lagrange	1788	30
	Engineering mechanics	A. Bedford	1998	29
	507 Mechanical Movements	Henry T. Brown	1991	24
	Engineering mechanics	J. L. Meriam	1978	23
	A manual of applied mechanics	William John Macquorn Rankine	1858	16
	Principles of mechanics	J. L. Synge	1942	11
	Classical mechanics	T. W. B. Kibble	1966	11
	Mechanics for Engineers, Statics & Dynamics	Ferdinand Pierre Beer	1956	10
	An introduction to mechanics	Daniel Kleppner	1973	10
	Classical mechanics	Goldstein, Herbert	1950	9
	Practical benchwork for horologists	Levin, Louis	1938	7
	Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics	Gerald Jay Sussman	2001	7
	Classical Mechanics	Herbert Goldstein, Charles Poole, John Safko	1951	6
	Introduction to Classical Mechanics	David Morin	2008	6
	Classical mechanics	A. K. Raychaudhuri	1983	3
	Introduction to classical mechanics	Atam Parkash Arya	1990	3
	Classical mechanics of particles and rigid bodies	Kiran C. Gupta	1988	2
	Understanding Mechanics	A.J. Sadler	1996	2

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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