B C of Hydrodynamics

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Fifty years elapsed, and then Lord Kelvin said, practically, the same thing: Thus it is that gravity, which could not affect the motion of a liquid entirely filling a rigid closed vessel, will exercise a most important influence on the motion Ofa liquid contained in an open vessel, and exposing a free surface to the atmospheric pressure. Some parts of the book are necessarily contentious. L have, however, when I disagree with the ordinary modern teaching, only quoted from authors of position and authority to explain my objections. The quotations are, perhaps, rather full, but I do not think it is fair to take a sentence out of a paragraph and remove it from the context.