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KindlyOleUncleDave

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Addendum

Addendum

My posted link is in no way ment to demean the work of Freddy B. ; rather it is offered in the manner of an augmentation. And thanks, Freddy, for publishing all that material ... it allows those who wish to cogitate some interesting points of physics to do so. So easy with a stroke.
 

NH Steve

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I did not realize how many antique billiard books were digitized and freely available on the net. Just for curiosity I checked out Side and Screw: Being Notes on the Theory and Practice of the Game of Billiards (1901) published in 1901, by Charles Dealtry Locock

I could only handle a little, but he seems to talk about all the same kind of pool physics that "the science guys" argue about today...

And Michael Phelan, writing in Billiards Without a Master in 1850:

"To the physiognomist and the silent observer of human
nature, there is no 'game that more thoroughly discloses
the various dispositions of men than Billiards. The ela,-
ted hope, the depressing fear, the sanguine exultation, the
mortifying defeat — ^the philosophical resignation to fate,
the indifference of success, and all the multiplied and
manifold passions of the human mind, are variously de-
picted and easily discovered, by an attentive observer, on
the countenance of the Billiard player. In fine, a Billiard
Room is a school where the study of human nature can
be pursued to advantage. ."
 
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