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Paper, 'On the stability of a rotating spheroid of perfect liquid' by G H [George Hartley] Bryan

Reference number: PP/15/26

Date: 1890

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Bryan writes: 'In my communication on “The Waves on a Rotating Liquid Spheroid of Finite Ellipticity” [see Philosophical Transactions A, volume 180], I stated that it did not appear possible to give a complete investigation of the criteria of stability of Maclaurin's spheroid when the liquid forming it is free from all traces of viscosity, and equilibrium is liable to be broken by a disturbance of a perfectly general character.'

Annotations in pencil and ink throughout.

Subject: Astronomy / Fluid dynamics

Received 12 March 1890 / 13 March 1890. Read 27 March 1890. Communicated by George Howard Darwin.

A version of this paper was published in volume 47 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On the stability of a rotating spheroid of perfect liquid'.

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PP/15/26
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1890
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Ink and graphite pencil on paper
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13 pages
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George Hartley Bryan, Paper, 'On the stability of a rotating spheroid of perfect liquid' by G H [George Hartley] Bryan, 1890, PP/15/26, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pp_15_26/paper-on-the-stability-of-a-rotating-spheroid-of-perfect-liquid-by-g-h-george-hartley-bryan, accessed on 19 January 2025

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