..., one might say, for becoming the ‘Greatest Mechanick' of his age (Waller, 1705 : p. ii). biography history When the historian, gossip and biographer of the eminent men and women of his age John Aubrey wrote the ‘Brief Life' of his friend Robert Hooke in the late 1680s, he styled him...

... in the old cemetery together with his wife (cimetière ancien, 5ème division) (Figure 2). 10 8 2009 12 3 2009 © 2010 Thomas Telford Ltd 2010 biography fluid mechanics hydraulics & hydrodynamics The application of the momentum principle to the hydraulic jump is commonly...