Title: Hermann Hankel's "On the general theory of motion of fluids", an essay including an English translation of the complete Preisschrift from 1861,
Abstract: The present is a companion paper to "A contemporary look at Hermann Hankel's
1861 pioneering work on Lagrangian fluid dynamics" by Frisch, Grimberg and
Villone (2017). Here we present the English translation of the 1861 prize
manuscript from Göttingen University "Zur allgemeinen Theorie der Bewegung
der Flüssigkeiten" (On the general theory of the motion of the fluids) of
Hermann Hankel (1839-1873), which was originally submitted in Latin and then
translated into German by the Author for publication. We also provide the
English translation of two important reports on the manuscript, one written by
Bernhard Riemann and the other by Wilhelm Eduard Weber, during the assessment
process for the prize. Finally we give a short biography of Hermann Hankel with
his complete bibliography.