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Image number: RS.9808
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Studies of hydrodynamic shapes
Date
ca. 1784
Creator
Mark Beaufoy (1764 - 1827, British) , Astronomer
Object type
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Material
Dimensions
height (painting): 174mm
width (painting): 427mm
width (painting): 427mm
Subject
Description
Plate 2 from an unpublished paper endorsed “An account of a course of experiments made by Mark Beaufoy Esqr., with a view of ascertaining the form that will enable a solid to move thro water with the smallest possible resistance”. Not published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
Seven figures of shapes used in experiments described by the author as being “on different solids moving through the water in the direction of their shortest axis, that is broad side foremost.”
Seven figures of shapes used in experiments described by the author as being “on different solids moving through the water in the direction of their shortest axis, that is broad side foremost.”
Transcription
Plate II
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