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Newton’s Investigation of the Resistance to Moving Bodies in Continuous Fluids and the Nature of ‘Frontier Science’

✍ Scribed by Colin F. Gauld

Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Year: 2010
Tongue: English
Weight: 330 KB
Volume: 19
Category: Article
ISSN: 0926-7220
DOI: 10.1007/s11191-010-9251-1

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