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Excerpt from Hydrostatics and Elementary Hydrokinetics
IN this work no previous acquaintance with the nature and properties of a fluid is assumed. As in my treatise on Statics, I have begun with the very elements, and, as sum ing that the student's reading in pure mathematics is advancing simultaneously with his study of Hydrostatics, 'i have endeavoured to lead him into the advanced portions of the subject. It will be noticed, however, that the way in which the reader is introduced to the notion of a perfect fluid is very different from that which is usually adopted in similar treatises. A definition of a perfect fluid founded upon the elementary facts and principles of the theory of strain and stress is not calculated to produce the impres sion of simplicity, more especially when the symbols of the Differential Calculus are employed in the process.
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