The Principle of Similitude¶
RAYLEIGH., J. W. S. (1915). The Principle of Similitude. Nature, 95(2368), 66-68.
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The 1915 letter itself deplores the 'scanty attention' paid to the principle of similitude and tells engineers they might make much more use of it, so it backs the championing frame but not 'hidden architecture of equations'.
“I HAVE often been impressed by the scanty attention paid even by original workers in physics to the great principle of similitude. It happens not infrequently that results in the form of “laws” are put forward as novelties on the basis of elaborate experiments, which might have been predicted a priori after a few minutes' consideration. However useful verification may be, whether to solve doubts or to exercise …”
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