I am posting these files to enable the wider Peirce community to appreciate the environment and influences upon Charles. This is also an OCR'd searchable version of A System Of Analytic Mechanics - a treatise by Charles' father, Benjamin Peirce, and taught at Harvard. Prepared by me in the past few years.
You will note in this text many of the ideas that you have come to attribute to Charles and you will note, while Peirce does not use the term "covariance" that this is precisely what he describes, anticipating Einstein's claims for the epistemic power of general covariance. The context of the work is Newtonian mechanics and recall that Peirce spent a good deal of time with the Celestial Mechanics of LaPlace, playing a major role in the translation by his mentor Nathaniel Bowditch. Benjamin Peirce - 1855 - A System Of Analytic Mechanics.pdf <https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B-c2CVg9ZQsANld4b1JhQnNBQlE/edit?usp=drive_web> Regards, Steven
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