YOUNG, THOMAS.- THE DERIVATION OF THE PRESSURE WAVE SPEED.

Hydraulic Investigations, subservient to an intended Croonian Lecture on the Motion of the Blood.

London, William Nicholson, 1809. 8vo. Contemp. hcalf, but spine lacks, boards loose. In: "A Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry, and the Arts. By William Nicholson." Vol. XXII. - VIII,384,(8) pp. a. 10 engraved plates. Youngs paper: pp. 104-124. Small stamps to verso of titlepage. Internally fine and clean.

First appearance (together with the paper in the "Transactions of the Royal Society at the same time) of this famous paper, containing Young's implicit discovery of the Joukowski equation for solids, 100 years before it appeared under the name of Joukowski (1847-1921), the well-known pioneer in the theory of aerodynamics.

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