"Hooke and Mariotte occupied themselves with the experimental discovery of what we now term stress-strain relations. Hooke gave in 1678 the famous law of proportionality of stress and strain which bears his name, in the words "Ut tensio sic vis; that is, the Power of any spring is in the same proportion with the Tension thereof." By "spring" Hooke means... any "springy body," and by "tension" what we should now call "extension," or, more generally, "strain." This law he discovered in 1660, but did not publish until 1676, and then only under the form of an anagram, ceiiinosssttuu. This law forms the basis of the mathematical theory of Elasticity."
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