References for Daniel Bernoulli


    1. Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
    2. Biography in Encyclopaedia Britannica.
    Books:
    1. H Bernhard, The Bernoulli family, in H Wussing and W Arnold, Biographien bedeutender Mathematiker (Berlin, 1983).
    2. J T Cannon and S Dostrovsky, The evolution of dynamics : vibration theory from 1687 to 1742 (New York, 1981).
    3. A T Grigor'yan and B D Kovalev, Daniel Bernoulli 1700-1782 (Russian), Scientific - Biographic Literature 'Nauka' (Moscow, 1981).
    4. V A Nikiforovskii, The great mathematicians Bernoulli (Russian), History of Science and Technology Nauka' (Moscow, 1984).
    Articles:
    1. P Delsedime, La disputa delle corde vibranti ed una lettera inedita di Lagrange a Daniel Bernoulli (Italian), Physis - Riv. Internaz. Storia Sci. 13 (2) (1971), 117-146.
    2. B Gower, Planets and probability : Daniel Bernoulli on the inclinations of the planetary orbits, Stud. Hist. Philos. Sci. 18 (4) (1987), 441-454.
    3. A T Grigor'yan and B D Kovalev, Daniel Bernoulli (Russian), Voprosy Istor. Estestvoznan. i Tekhn. (1) (1982), 108-112.
    4. M G Kendall, Daniel Bernoulli on maximum likelihood, Biometrika 48 (1961), 1-18.
    5. U Puppini, La forma originaria del teorema di Daniel Bernoulli nell'idrodinamica, Mem. Accad. Sci. Ist. Bologna. Cl. Sci. Fis. (9) 10 (1943), 75-86.
    6. O B Sheynin, Daniel Bernoulli on the normal law, Biometrika 57 (1970), 199-202.
    7. O B Sheynin, Daniel Bernoulli on the normal law, in M G Kendall and R L Plackett (eds.), Studies in the History of Statistics and Probability II (London, 1977), 101-104.
    8. O B Sheynin, D Bernoulli's work on probability, in M G Kendall and R L Plackett (eds.), Studies in the History of Statistics and Probability II (London, 1977), 105-133.
    9. O B Sheynin, D Bernoulli's work on probability, RETE 1 (3-4) (1971/72), 273-300.
    10. O B Sheynin, On Daniel Bernoulli's article of 1777 and on Euler's commentaries (Russian), Voprosy Istor. Estestvoznan. i Tehn. Vyp. 19 (1965), 115-117.
    11. D Speiser, Daniel Bernoulli (1700-1782), Helvetica Physica Acta 55 (1982), 504-523.
    12. D Vischer, Daniel Bernoulli and Leonard Euler, the advent of hydromechanics, in G Garbrecht (ed.), Hydraulics and Hydraulic Research: A Historical Review (Rotterdam-Boston, 1987), 145-156.
    13. R Wolf, Daniel Bernoulli von Basel, 1700-1782, Biographien zur Kulturgeschichte der Schweiz (Zurich, 1860), 151-202.
    14. E C Zeeman, Controversy in science : on the ideas of Daniel Bernoulli and René Thom, Nieuw Arch. Wisk. (4) 11 (3) (1993), 257-282.