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  Fig. 7.14: Portrait of the Italian mathematician Joseph-Louis Lagrange who was born in Turin in 1736 and baptised Giuseppe Lodovico Lagrangia (O'Connor and Robertson, 2004). The coordinates (X, Y, Z) used in the referential description of motion are referred to as the Lagrangian coordinates.  
         
 
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