This collection of classic papers in shock compression science makes available not only some of the most important classic papers on shock waves by Poisson, Rankine Earnshaw, Riemann, and Hugoniot, but also some papers from this century on shocks in solids and fluids. It will be a vital reference for all researchers in the field.

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A Paper on the Theory of Sound.- On a Difficulty in the Theory of Sound.- On the Mathematical Theory of Sound.- The Propagation of Planar Air Waves of Finite Amplitude.- On the Thermodynamic Theory of Waves of Finite Longitudinal Disturbance.- The Life and Work of Pierre Henri Hugoniot.- On the Propagation of Motion in Bodies and in Perfect Gases in Particular -I.- On the Propagation of Motion in Bodies and in Perfect Gases in Particular - II.- Aerial Plane Waves of Finite Amplitude.- The Conditions Necessary for Discontinuous Motion in Gases.- On the Theory of Shock Waves for an Arbitrary Equation of State.- Shock Waves in Arbitrary Fluids.