The notions or categories of causality and determinism have accompanied the formation of modern sciences, and primarily those of physics. The current nowaday use tends often, but wrongly, to get them identifed in the reevaluations to which they are submitted in physics itself. In this work we intend to clarify the first of these notions, more precisely physical causality, by following its elaboration with the beginnings of dynamics, through its first utilizations and conceptualizations in the making of the mathematization of mechanics, before being extended to physics in a general way. We will see how, while having been supported by one of the traditional philosophical aspects of the idea of causality (that one of "efficient cause"), physic...