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Our main intention is to highlight the genuine contribution of d’Alembert to Fluid Mechanics. Therefore, instead of running through the Essay article by article, we have preferred to extract the core contribution and to bring it clearly to the light. Nevertheless this does not mean that we have renounced analysing the entire book. Some of the criticisms that the Essay has received are of its being lengthy and tortuous; we will try to mitigate these opinions by breaking up the lengthiness in small pieces and simplifying the tortuousness by reorganizing the articles.
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Simón Calero, J. (2018). Brief Analysis of the Contents of the Essay . In: Calero, J. (eds) Jean Le Rond D'Alembert: A New Theory of the Resistance of Fluids. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, vol 47. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68000-2_14
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