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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-ph2022

An annotated translation from Latin of L. Euler's 'On the motion of boats propelled by oars in rivers'

Sylvio R. Bistafa

Euler considers the following problem: A boat with a perfect rudder moves at constant speed across a stream flowing in straight fillets at assigned speeds. Assuming that the downst…

physics.hist-ph2021

On the formation and propagation of pulses in ether

Sylvio R Bistafa

In 1746 Euler publishes E88 -- Nova theoria lucis et colorum (A new theory of light and colors) in five chapters. This is an annotated translation of Chapter II - De formatione ac…

physics.hist-ph20215 cited

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

Sylvio R Bistafa

This is an annotated translation from German of Untersuchung einer nach den Euler'schen Vorschlagen (1754) gebauten Wasserturbine [Investigation of a water turbine built according…