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THIS work was projected by the late Dr. Todhunter on the same lines as his well-known Histories of the “Theory of Probabilities” of the “Figure of the Earth” and of the “Calculus of Variations,” and will doubtless equal them in usefulness to the mathematical student.
A History of the Theory of Elasticity and of the Strength of Materials, from Galilei to the Present Time.
By the late Isaac Todhunter Edited and completed for the Syndics of the University Press by Karl Pearson, M.A., Professor of Applied Mathematics, University College, London. Vol. I. Galilei to Saint-Venant, 1639–1850. (Cambridge: at the University Press, 1886.)
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GREENHILL, A. A History of the Theory of Elasticity and of the Strength of Materials, from Galilei to the Present Time . Nature 35, 313–314 (1887). https://doi.org/10.1038/035313a0
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