Abstract
Logic status of virtual work laws.- Greek origins.- Arabic and Latin science of weights.- Italian Renaissance statics.- Torricelli's principle.- European statics during the XVI and XVII centuries.- The principle of virtual velocities.- The Jesuit school of the XVIII century.- Lagrange's contribution.- Lazare Carnot's mechanics of collision.- The debate in Italy.- The debate at the Ecole polytechnique.- Poinsot's criticism.- The treatises of mechanics.- Virtual work laws and continuum mechanics.- Thermodynamical approach.
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