Worlds of Flow: A History of Hydrodynamics from the Bernoullis to Prandtl by Olivier Darrigol
English | 2005 | ISBN: 0198568436 , 0199559112 | 376 pages | PDF | 11,4 MB
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. It documents the foundational role of fluid mechanics in developing a new mathematical physics.