Excerpt from Theory of the Equilibrium and Motion of Fluids
In the "Principles of Hydrostatics," published a few months ago, I dwelt in detail on the phenomena which occur in considering the mechanical properties of fluids, and on the principles to which they lead, and I illustrated those principles by their applications in various machines. In the present treatise, which may be considered as a mathematical supplement to the former, taking these principles as established, I have endeavoured to develope them by the application of the Calculus. The two will, I hope, be found to contain the inductive and deductive reasoning which belongs to that department of natural philosophy of which they profess to treat.
The present treatise is compiled principally from the writings of Poisson and Challis, the well-known work of the former having furnished most of the propositions in the equilibrium, as the various papers of the latter have done those in the motion, of fluids; and I have endeavoured to bring before the student what has hitherto been done in this department of science, and to point out the difficulties which present themselves to its further progress.
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