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Worlds of flow : a history of hydrodynamics from the Bernoullis to Prandtl /

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The first of its kind, this book is an in-depth history of hydrodynamics from its eighteenth-century foundation to its first major successes in twentieth-century hydraulics and aeronautics. This book documents the foundational role of fluid mechanics in developing a new mathematical physics. It give...

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Main Author: Darrigol, Olivier (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
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Hydrodynamics > History.
Hydrodynamique > Histoire.
33.14 fluid dynamics, transport in gasses and fluids, rheology.
Hydrodynamics
Hydrodynamik
Hydrodynamics.
Hydrodynamics > History
Geschichte 1738-1912.
1700-1800.
1800-2000.
Geschichte 1738-1912
History
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