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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The enigma of the aerofoil : rival theories in aerodynamics, 1909-1930 by David Bloor. ISBN 9780226060958. Published by University of Chicago Press in 2011. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
