A History and Philosophy of Fluid MechanicsThrough the centuries, the intricacies of fluid mechanics — the study of the laws of motion and fluids in motion — have occupied many of history's greatest minds. In this pioneering account, a distinguished aeronautical scientist presents a history of fluid mechanics focusing on the achievements of the pioneering scientists and thinkers whose inspirations and experiments lay behind the evolution of such disparate devices as irrigation lifts, ocean liners, windmills, fireworks and spacecraft. |
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Hero of Alexandria | 26 |
Leonardos fluidmechanics | 42 |
Evangelista Torricelli and Otto von Guericke | 56 |
Daniel Bernoulli | 70 |
Chezy Du Buat Coulon Hagen Poiseuille | 86 |
Lazare Carnot Pierre Simon de Laplace | 101 |
Osborne Reynolds | 114 |
Mikhail Lomonossov and others | 121 |