Translation of Leonhard Euler’s: General Principles of the Motion of Fluids

This is an adapatation by U. Frisch of an English translation by Thomas E. Burton of Euler’s memoir ‘Principes généraux du mouvement des fluides’ (Euler, 1775b). Burton’s translation appeared in Fluid Dynamics 34 (1999) pp. 801–82, Springer and is here adapted by permission. A detailed presentation of Euler’s published work can be found in Truesdell, 1954. Euler’s work is discussed also in the perspective of eighteenth century fluid dynamics research by Darrigol and Frisch, 2008. Explanatory footnotes have been supplied where necessary by G.K. Mikhailov and a few more by U. Frisch and O. Darrigol. Euler’s memoir had neither footnotes nor a list of references.