Commentaries on Daniel Bernoulli

The story of Daniel Bernoulli was a very depressing one. It told of family disputes, lost hope, deaths, and tragically, the dream of one man lost, who after an entire life of pursuing what he thought was his true calling, had everything wither away before him in the last act of his life. This was the story of a man who only ever wanted to solve mathematical problems and find closure for his life, but he instead found himself in conflict at every conceivable turn and was imprisoned by an equation that even he couldn’t find an answer to. Eventually, he would create the equation he sought, but his troubles never ended. The discovery he made (the now aptly named “Bernoullis’ principle”) in contrast had a very smooth-flowing nature and through the future streamed fluidly, to our hearts, and would change the world in at least two ways: we would finally understand how to fly, and we would come closer to understanding ourselves. The ability to fly in mechanical aircraft within our atmosphere then allows us to use Newtons’ equation (previously discussed) to its full potential, and we would be able to soar to the moon, which is in itself one of the greatest feats of mankind. But for the time in which it was made, specifically, it would hold an even greater importance by acting as a milestone scientific accomplishment, representing the collective knowledge of the natural world and our confident ability to finally grasp at it.