1. A.-J.-C.-Barré de St. Venant, Historique abrégé des recherches sur la résistance et sur l’élasticité des corps solides, pp. xc-cccxj of C.-L.-M.-H. Navier, Resumé des Leçons...sur l’Application de la Mécanique..., Paris, Dunod, 1864.
2. I. Todhunder, A history of the theory of elasticity... (edited and completed by K. Pearson), Cambridge Univ. Press, Vol. 1, 1886, Vol. 2, 1893. Both of these histories are far from complete. For details of §§1-4:
3. Leonhardi Euleri Opera Omnia (Series Secunda, Opera Mechanica et Astronomica), Vol. XI, sectio secunda;Truesdell, C.,1960
4. C. Truesdell, Sophie Germain, Arch. Hist. Exact Sci. (in preparation).
5. The classical field theories;Truesdell, C.,1960