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We discuss the role played by Amontons, Coulomb, Leonardo daVinci,Morin, and Euler in the discovery of the dry friction law. In particular, reference is given to Euler’s 1748 paper,where an exhaustive statement of the dry friction law was given 37 years before Coulomb’s main publications. Painlevé’s criticism of the Coulomb law is assessed, and the main points of the theory of polycomponent dry friction are given.
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Original Russian Text © V.Ph. Zhuravlev, 2013, published in Izvestiya Akademii Nauk. Mekhanika Tverdogo Tela, 2013, No. 4, pp. 13–19.
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Zhuravlev, V.P. On the history of the dry friction law. Mech. Solids 48, 364–369 (2013). https://doi.org/10.3103/S002565441304002X
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