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Excerpt from A Treatise on Elementary Hydrostatics
In Chapter I., after shewing that solids may be classified according to their behaviour under the action of forces, I have deduced the definition of a ?uid from the characteristic behaviour of all substances which we recognise as ?uids. From this definition the principles of the subject are deduced.
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