4 lives in this collection worked in hydrostatics, from 287 BC to today. Each has a full course on their life and the mathematics and physics they made.
Greek geometer of Syracuse who measured areas and volumes of curved figures by exhaustion and founded statics and hydrostatics.
geometry, mechanics, hydrostatics
Flemish engineer who popularized decimal fractions and founded modern statics and hydrostatics.
arithmetic, algebra, statics
Mathematician, physicist and writer who proved the hexagram theorem, built the Pascaline, established atmospheric pressure, co-founded probability theory with Fermat, and wrote the Provincial Letters and Pensées.
projective geometry, probability theory, combinatorics
Anglo-Irish experimental philosopher who, with Robert Hooke's air pump, established the law of pressure and volume and argued for a corpuscular, experimental chemistry.
pneumatics, chemistry, natural philosophy