On the Earnshaw misconjecture (Q791373)

In 1837 \textit{S. Earnshaw} suggested that in a circulation-preserving motion (of a continuous body), a particle once in complex-lamellar motion remains ever in complex-lamellar motion [On fluid motion, so far as it is expressed by the equation on continuity, Trans. Camb. Philos. Soc. 6, 203-233 (1837)]. In 1966 \textit{C.-S. Yih} claimed to have disproved that conjecture [On the Earnshaw conjecture, Z. Angew. Math. Mech. 46, 471-472 (1966)]. The author shows that this claim (containing flaws of logic) fails to appear incompatible with the conjecture. Furthermore he constructs various classes of counterexamples that disprove the conjecture.