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BL
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711472
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b533661
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| Main Entry
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Bloor, David
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| Title & Author
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The enigma of the aerofoil : : rival theories in aerodynamics, 1909-1930 /\ David Bloor
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| Publication Statement
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Chicago :: University of Chicago Press,, 2011
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xiv, 547 p. :: ill. ;; 24 cm
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| ISBN
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0226060942 (cloth : alk. paper)
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: 0226060950 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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: 9780226060941 (cloth : alk. paper)
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: 9780226060958 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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Mathematicians versus practical men: the founding of the Advisory Committee for Aeronautics -- The air as an ideal fluid: classical hydrodynamics and the foundations of aerodynamics -- Early British work on lift and drag: Rayleigh flow versus the aerodynamics of intuition -- Lanchester's cyclic theory of lift and its early reception -- Two traditions: mathematical physics and technical mechanics -- Technische Mechanik in action: Kutta's arc and the Joukowsky wing -- The finite wing: Ludwig Prandtl and the Göttingen school -- '"We have nothing to learn from the Hun": realization dawns -- The laws of Prandtl and the laws of nature -- Pessimism, positivism, and relativism: aerodynamic knowledge in context
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Prandtl, Ludwig,1875-1953
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Aerodynamics-- History
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| Dewey Classification
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629.132/3
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| LC Classification
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TL570.B566 2011
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