Table of Contents

Preface; 1. The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; 2. Miscellaneous investigations between the years 1800 and 1822; 3. Miscellaneous researches 1820–30, Navier, Germain, Savart, Pagani, and others; 4. Poisson; 5. Cauchy; 6. Miscellaneous researches of the decade, 1830–40; 7. Lamé and Clapeyron, Lamé; 8. Miscellaneous researches of the decade 1840–50, including those of Blanchet, Stokes, Wertheim and Haughton; 9. Saint-Venant's researches before 1850; Appendix; Index.

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Published between 1886 and 1893, this three-part work traces the mathematical understanding of elasticity from Galileo to Lord Kelvin.