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what? didn't physics start with Newtonian mechanics? how would there be textbooks before that?
There are plenty of textbooks of physics before then, even predating Greece. Waterworks, astronomy, ship building, architecture, war machines, not to mention metaphysics, alchemy, atomic theory, etc.
We didn't have a rigorous scientific method until thereabouts though.
I always maintain that Aristotle's notions of how to test theories of 'natural philosophy' are a reasonable starting point for 'science'