"Thanks to JoeF for finding this kite trail, that also involves Eulers, father and son, who we suspected studied kites (as did Newton).
Examen Marítimo (1771)
Jorge Juan
Jorge Juan y Santacilia - Wikipedia
Kites: the rise and fall of a scientific object
Juan Miguel Suay David Teira
Dpto. de Lógica, Historia y Filosofía de la ciencia, UNED, Spain
KitesFinalVersion.pdf (pitt.edu)
"However, kites did not have any theoretical posterity in physics after Johan Albert Euler: with the sole (but not significant exception) of the works of the Spanish enlightened seaman Jorge Juan y Santacilia (1713-1778), 20 we have been unable to trace another physical model of kite flying in the subsequent decades…In an appendix of his Examen Marítimo (1771), Jorge Juan analyzes the mechanics of the flight of kites with a view to verifying a theory of his own about the resistance exerted by a body immersed in a fluid. See Simón Calero, Julián, The Genesis of Fluid Mechanics (1640–1780) (Dordrecht The Netherlands, Springer, 2008), pp. 182-184
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Rise and Fall and Rise Again of the Science Kite…
Joe and my invited Letter in Physics World-
(9) (PDF) A brief history of kite physics (researchgate.net)
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