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Hooke's law Figure 7: Transverse motion of an initially straight beam, shown at left as an elastic line and at right as a solid of finite section (see text).
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Augustin-Louis Cauchy
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Sophie Germain
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Ctesibius of Alexandria
Ctesibius Of Alexandria
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