One hundred years of pressure : hydrostatics from Stevin to Newton / Alan F. Chalmers.

This monograph investigates the development of hydrostatics as a science. In the process, it sheds new light on the nature of science and its origins in the Scientific Revolution. Readers will come to see that the history of hydrostatics reveals subtle ways in which the science of the seventeenth ce...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via Springer)
Main Author:	Chalmers, A. F. (Alan Francis), 1939- (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2017.
Series:	Archimedes (Dordrecht, Netherlands) ; v. 51.
Subjects:	Hydrostatics.