A tachytrope is a curve in which the law of the velocity is given. It was first used by American mathematician Benjamin Peirce in A System of Analytic Mechanics, first published in 1855.
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- Peirce 1855, pp. 364–370.
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- Peirce, Benjamin (1855). A System of Analytic Mechanics. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. pp. 364–370.
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