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| | Plough Book Sales: History of Strength of Materials by Stephen P. Timoshenko (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22) |
 | | Timoshenko explores the early roots of the discipline from the great monuments and pyramids of ancient Egypt through the temples, roads, and fortifications of ancient Greece and Rome. |
 | | The author fixes the formal beginning of the modern science of the strength of materials with the publication of Galileo's book, "The Sciences," and traces the rise and development as well as industrial and commercial applications of the fledgling science from the seventeenth century through to the twentieth. |
 | | Timoshenko fleshes out the bare bones of mathematical theory with lucid demonstrations of important equations and brief biographies of highly influential mathematicians, including: Euler, Lagrange, Navier, Thomas Young, Saint-Venant, Franz Neumann, Maxwell, Kelvin, Rayleigh, Klein, Prandtl, and many others. |
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