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most citedInvestigation of a water turbine built according to Euler's proposals (1754)

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physics.hist-ph2025

An Annotated Translation of D. Bernoulli's "A New Theory on the Motion of Waters Through Channels of Any Kind"

Sylvio R. Bistafa

This paper presents an annotated English translation of Daniel Bernoulli's 1727 work A New Theory on the Motion of Waters through Channels of Any Kind, originally published in the…

physics.hist-ph2024

Evaluating Jacob Bernoulli's Ship Propulsion Artifice: Euler's Analysis and Critique

Sylvio R. Bistafa

The present work examines and compares the approaches of Jacob Bernoulli and Leonhard Euler to the problem of ship propulsion generated by internal forces. Jacob Bernoulli's analys…

physics.hist-ph2024

A translation of L. Euler's " Examination of an artifice for propelling a ship by the principle of internal motion"

Sylvio R. Bistafa

The following translation of Leonhard Euler's "Examination of an Artifice for Propelling a Ship by the Principle of Internal Motion," originally published in 1750, offers a glimpse…

physics.hist-ph2024

Early theories on fluid resistance and translation of Euler's "Dilucidationes de resistentia fluidorum"

Sylvio R. Bistafa

In 1763, Euler published "Dilucidationes de resistentia fluidorum" (Explanations on the resistance of fluids), a memoir that challenges the fluid resistance theories proposed by Is…

physics.hist-ph2024

200 Years of the Navier-Stokes Equation

Sylvio R. Bistafa

The year 2022 marked the 200th anniversary of the first appearance of the Navier-Stokes equation, a landmark in Fluid Dynamics introduced by Claude-Louis Navier in 1822. This equat…

math.HO2023

Translating scientific Latin texts with artificial intelligence: the works of Euler and contemporaries

Sylvio R. Bistafa

The major hindrance in the study of earlier scientific literature is the availability of Latin translations into modern languages. This is particular true for the works of Euler wh…