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Excerpt from Essays in Philosophy and Physics: Consisting of Articles on the Laws of River Flow, the Functions of Spheric Wedge, Tides by Reflux, Cyclones, Cold Waves, and Tornadoes; Earthquakes and Volcanoes, the Birth of a Planet, the Philosophy of Money
After the time of Archimedes many centuries passed during which not a word of all the records that have reached us, reveals that men even thought of theories of stream-¿ow as a matter worthy of investigation. Hydro mechanics must then be regarded as a modern science which virtually owes its existence to the great men who adorned the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and Italy may be said to have been its birthplace Every point connected with the theory of torrents and rivers, the conducting and distribution Of water, the inclines, the directions and the variations of channels, were sedulously inquired into in that country by Castelli, Viviana, Torri celli, Zendrini, Manfredi, Guglielmini and Frisi.
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