About
The physical property of a liquid's surface that allows it to resist an external force, observed by early modern thinkers like Leonardo da Vinci and Descartes in the context of fluid mechanics and cohesion.
Connections
Other entities that appear in the same books as Surface tension.
Appears in 14 Books
Oeuvres de Descartes Vol. VI (La Géométrie)
René Descartes
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci (ed. Jean Paul Richter)
Notes et dessins sur le coeur et sa constitution anatomique
Leonardo da Vinci
Principia Philosophiae
René Descartes
Nova Experimenta Physico-Mechanica
Robert Boyle
Journal tenu par Isaac Beeckman, Tome I (1604-1619)
Isaac Beeckman
On Natural Motions Depending on Gravity
Giovanni Alfonso Borelli
Discourse on Bodies in Water
Galileo Galilei
Journal Kept by Isaac Beeckman, Vol. 3
Isaac Beeckman
Philosophical Experiments and Observations
Robert Hooke
Renati Des-Cartes opera philosophica
Descartes, René