I’m trying to learn fluid mechanics and I heard it’s better to learn from journals and published papers rather than textbooks. I want to do this for fluid mechanics. Where would I start?

My first thought is Navier-Stokes, but I’m having a lot of difficulty finding papers from G.G. Stokes and Claude Navier which aren’t paywalled.

I heard this idea from Nassim Taleb, so tell me if this is a retarded idea or not