HYDRODYNAMICS

calculus & the birth of quantitative scientific theory
	continuous change/variation in time & space
	
		Descartes (1596-1650)
		Newton (1642-1727)
		Leibnitz (1646-1716)
		
early fluid theory

		J Bernoulli (1667-1748)
		D Bernoulli (1700-1782)
		Euler	(1707-1783)
		D'Alembert (1717-1783)
	
mechanics dynamics of discrete objects
	
		Lagrange (1736-1813)
		Laplace (1749-1827)
		
continuous/deformable media

		Gauss (1777-1855)
		Poisson (1781--1840)
		Navier (1785-1836)
		Cauchy (1789-1857)
		
pre-flight fluid theory
	
		Stokes (1819-1903)
		Helmholtz (1821-1894)
		Kirchhoff (1824-1887)
		Kelvin (1824-1907)
		Reynolds (1842-1912)
		Rayleigh (1842-1919)
		Boussinesq (1842-1929)