Die Werke

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Volume 5 of Daniel Bernoulli's Works focuses on his contributions to Fluid Dynamics, featuring seven papers related to fluid motion, written or completed in Basel after his time in Petersburg. The volume begins with Bernoulli's letter to Johann Daniel Schöpflin, announcing his unpublished treatise from 1734, where the term "Hydrodynamica" is introduced. This is followed by his significant work, Hydrodynamica, and a separate paper discussing the impact of a water jet on a plane obstacle. Additionally, two 18th-century texts complement this section: John Allan's lesser-known paper on the reactive motion of vessels (1730) and Georg Wolfgang Krafft's 1741 paper, which experimentally confirms Bernoulli's findings on fluid jet impact pressure. The second part includes two memoirs by Bernoulli—on winds and ocean currents—presented to the Berlin and Paris Academies of Science in 1746 and 1751. It also features three smaller papers on atmospheric pressure and elevation above sea level. Two appended papers relate to Bernoulli's wind memoir, including George Hadley's paper on trade winds (1735) and Christlob Mylius' memoir on winds (1746). This edition provides authoritative source texts, with commentaries in English that offer interpretative introductions, explanatory notes, and indexes, all while preserving the original language of the texts, primarily Latin and French, accompanied by illustrations from original printings and hologra