Leonardo da Vinci—the first systematic study of friction
Friday, May 6, 2016 - 08:01
in Mathematics & Economics
Friction is immensely important to us – without it, for example, we could not walk or even crawl – yet it is only 50 years since a special word – 'tribology' – was first coined to describe its study. Professor Ian Hutchings has recently had a paper published on Leonardo da Vinci and his studies of Friction.