The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 187
Galileo and Leibnitz supposed that the segments of a beam X Y, frac-tured by a weight W, turned about the line A B where the fracture termi-nates But James Bernoulli, Mariotte, and others, were of opinion thatthe segments had a tendency to turn about a line, as nm, entirely withinthe section ; the…
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