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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Genesis of Fluid Mechanics, 1640–1780
  name:
    name part: Calero, Julián Simón.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2008
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIV, 518 p. online resource.
  abstract: Fluid Mechanics, as a scientific discipline in a modern sense, was established between the last third of the 17th century and the first half of the 18th one. This book analyses its genesis, following its evolution along two basic lines of research, which have been named the "problem of resistance" and the "problem of discharge". This approach highlights the existence of a remarkable experimental aspect in the aforementioned research lines, together with their link with problems of a practical nature, such as ballistics, hydraulics, fluid-using machines or naval theory. On the other hand, although previous studies usually present fluid mechanics from the point of view of mathematics, this is complemented here by an engineering viewpoint; gathering attempts made in the beginnings of fluid mechanics to see if the theory was capable of productive application in practical terms. This is nothing unusual in a time where the quality of knowledge and skill is measured largely by its usefulness.
  table of contents: The Problem of Resistance -- The Forerunners of Impact Theory: Huygens and Mariotte -- Impact Theory: Formulation and Formalisation -- The Evolution of the Problem of Resistance -- Experiments on Resistance -- Fluid-driven Machines and Naval Theories -- The Problem of Discharge -- Discharge from Vessels and Tanks -- The Hydrodynamica and the Hydraulica -- Theoretical Constructions (I): Clairaut and d'Alembert -- Theoretical Constructions (II): Euler -- Application of Fluid Mechanics to Pumps and Turbines.
  note: by Julián Simón Calero.
  subject:
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Fluids
  subject:
    topic: Fluid mechanics
  subject:
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: History of Science
  subject:
    topic: Fluid- and Aerodynamics
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy of Technology
  subject:
    topic: Engineering Fluid Dynamics
  classification: D1-DX301
  classification: 509
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 22
  identifier: 9781402064142
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6414-2
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    record change date: 20151204151154.0
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