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Lagrange published his collected works on mechanics in 1788 in a book called “Mechanique Analytique”. He considered the work to be pure mathematics and boasts in the introduction that it contains no figures, thereby putting the anal in analytique.

--David Tong

Also, the following as well...

Since I started with a quote about Newton’s teaching, I’ll include here a comment on Lagrange’s lectures by one of his more famous students: “His voice is very feeble, at least in that he does not become heated; he has a very pronounced Italian accent and pronounces the s like z ... The students, of whom the ma jority are incapable of appreciating him, give him little welcome, but the professors make amends for it.”

Fourier analysis of Lagrange

--David Tong