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1 General Introduction: About the Contents and Form of this Book

2 A Glimpse at the Eighteenth Century: From John Bernoulli to Lagrange

3 What Happened on September 30, 1822, and What Were its Implications for the Future of Continuum Mechanics?

4 Piola and Kirchhoff: On Changes of Configurations

5 Duhamel's Pioneering Work in Thermo-elasticity and Its Legacy

6 From Cauchy to Boussinesq via Barr de Saint-Venant

7 Helmholtz Interpreted and Applied by Duhem

8 About the Cosserats' Book of 1909

9 Caratheodory: Thermodynamics and Topology

10 On Duhem's Energetics or General Thermodynamics

11 A Course of Continuum Mechanics at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century (Volume III of Appell's Treatise on Rational Mechanics)

12 A Successful Attempt at a Synthetic View of Continuum Mechanics on the Eve of WWI: Hellinger's Article in the German Encyclopaedia of Mathematics

13 Epilogue

Retrospective: A Gallery of Portraits of the Main Actors