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To review this book is difficult in view of its circumstances: (1) it may be regarded as an explanation of hydraulic concepts in their historical origin, written by hydraulic engineers and for hydraulic engineers; (2) it is the first serious attempt, in any language, to cover justly the whole development of hydraulics from the practice of antiquity down to the theory and experiments of living scientists; and (3) it may be regarded as a contribution to the history of science itself. In respect to (1), it is surely excellent; to (2), commendable; to (3), something less.
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J. Ackeret, Introduction to Leonhardt Euleri Opera omnia (II)15, Zürich, 1957.
C. Truesdell, Introductions to Leonhardi Euleri Opera omnia (II)12 and 13, Zürich, 1954 and 1956.
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Truesdell, C. (1984). Rouse & Ince’s History of Hydraulics (1959). In: An Idiot’s Fugitive Essays on Science. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-8185-3_26
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