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100	1		_aBloor, David.
245	1	4	_aThe enigma of the aerofoil _brival theories in aerodynamics, 1909-1930
260			_aChicago _aLondon _bThe University of Chicago Press _c2011
300			_axiv, 547 p
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aMathematicians 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.
650		0	_aAerodynamics _xHistory
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