Essai d’une nouvelle théorie de la résistance des fluides.
Paris: David l’aîné, 1752. First edition of one of d’Alembert’s most important books. “It is recognised that the New Theory of the Resistance of Fluids was a turning point in the genesis of Fluid Mechanics: for the first time the motion of a fluid was reduced to two differential equations..... More
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