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RESUMEN «Ningun volumen se ha consagrado al analisis dimensional hasta 1922 –cien anos despues de la aparicion del Traite de Fourier– cuando P. W. Bridgman publico el curso que habia impartido en la Universidad de Yale.» Asi se expresa Monod-Herzen (1976, p. 25). Entre ambos libros, Fourier 1822 y Bridgman 1922, fue Maxwell quien abono el terreno para la consolidacion de esta disciplina, y su semilla no cayo en terreno baldio. En Espana, sin ir mas lejos, la labor de Maxwell arraigo desde bien pronto. Hasta tal punto que la historia desmiente al epistemologo frances. Pues si que hay un libro sobre analisis dimensional entre Fourier y Bridgman. Se trata de Unidades Fisicas del fisico espanol Jose Munoz del Castillo, que lo publica en 1890, o sea treinta y dos anos antes de la publicacion del libro de Bridgman. Asi pues Unidades Fisicas se convierte en el primer libro dedicado al analisis dimensional. Naturalmente no voy a cuestionar que sea el Dimensional Analysis de Bridgman el primer tratado completo de esta disciplina. Pero no es el primer libro en el que se recoge el conocimiento de la teoria de las dimensiones misma, como podia ser conocida en el siglo XIX, veinticuatro anos antes de la propuesta de Buckingham 1914 de su famoso Teorema pi . El objeto de este articulo es remarcar la aceptacion y desarrollo del analisis dimensional en la Espana del XIX, una circunstancia hasta ahora no sufi cientemente apreciada por la historiografia especializada.ABSTRACT «No book has been devoted to the dimensional analysis until 1922 –a hundred years after the appearance of Fourier’s Traite – as P.W. Bridgman published the course he taught at Yale University.» This is what Monod-Herzen (1976, p. 25) affi rms. Between both books, Fourier’s 1822 and Bridgman’s 1922, James Clerk Maxwell paved the way for the consolidation of this discipline, and his seed did not fall on barren ground. In Spain, without going any further, the work of Maxwell root from soon. So much history belies the French epistemologist. Yes, there is a book on dimensional analysis between Fourier and Bridgman. It is Physical Units written by the Spanish physicist Jose Munoz del Castillo, who published it in 1890, that is thirty-two years before the publication of the book by Bridgman. Physical Units thus becomes the fi rst treatise devoted to dimensional analysis. Naturally I will not question that Bridgman’s Dimensional Analysis has been the fi rst complete treatise on this discipline. But it is not the fi rst book in which the theory of dimensions is presented, as it could be known in the nineteenth century, twenty four years before the proposal by Buckingham of his famous theorem pi. The purpose of this article is to highlight the acceptance and development of dimensional analysis in Spain in the 19th century, a circumstance so far not suffi ciently appreciated by the specialized historiography.

Unidades físicas de José Muñoz del Castillo, primer libro de análisis dimensional en la historia