"The discovery apparently of the modern conception of elasticity seems due to Robert Hooke, who in his work De potentiâ restitutiva, London 1678, states that 18 years before... he had first found out the theory of springs, but had omitted to publish it because he was anxious to obtain a patent for a particular application of it. He continues:— About three years since His Majesty was pleased to see the Experiment that made out this theory tried at White-Hall, as also my Spring Watch. About two years since I printed this Theory in an Anagram at the end of my Book of the Descriptions of s, viz. ceiiinosssttuu, id est, Ut Tensio sic vis; That is, The Power of any spring is in the same proportion with the Tension thereof."
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A History of the Theory of Elasticity and of the Strength of Materials
A History of the Theory of Elasticity and of the Strength of Materials: from Galilei to the Present Time is a two volume set edited and completed by Karl Pearson from notes written by . It was published by Cambridge at the University Press posthumously in Todhunter's name. Volume I. Galilei to Saint-Venant 1639-1850 was first published in 1886. Volume II. Saint-Venant to Lord Kelvin was first published in 1893.
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