Jorge Juan, Examen marítimo theórico práctico (Madrid, 1771)

A Spanish naval officer set out to take shipbuilding out of the hands of carpenters and put it on mechanics. The 1771 treatise reviews the European literature by name, rejects Bouguer's masting rules and the pendulum theory of rolling, and builds a theory of fluid resistance — then prints, in a scholium, the objection that might overturn it. Its 1793 Spanish editor records both the Paris-privileged French translation of 1783 and the slips he found in the text.