 | John Frederick William Herschel - 1831 - 310 pages
...towards a knowledge of them were made by Archimedes, who established the general fact, that a solid immersed in a liquid loses a portion of its weight equal to that of the liquid it displaces. It seems very astonishing, after this, that it should not have been... | |
 | B. Powell - 1834 - 420 pages
...the philosopher of Syracuse. He unquestionably established the general law, that a solid body, when immersed in a liquid, loses a portion of its weight equal to that of the liquid it displaces. It has been remarked, in the " Introductory Essay on the Study of... | |
 | Philip Alexander Prince - 1838 - 702 pages
...we owe the discovery of the principal laws of hydrostatics ; and he proved that a solid body, when immersed in a liquid, loses a portion of its weight equal to that of the liquid it displaces. The latter fact was demonstrated to the philosopher when he observed... | |
 | Reynell Coates - 1846 - 692 pages
...heavier or lighter than the liquid. Let us give it this general expression : Any body immersed in any liquid loses a portion of its weight equal to the weight of a similar bulk of that liquid. 503. This rule would be equally applicable, even were liquids obviously... | |
 | Alonzo Gray - 1850 - 422 pages
...capacity ; and also that the surface of a liquid at rest is always level. IV. A body immersed in any liquid loses a portion of its weight equal to the weight of the liquid displaced, and hence by weighing bodies in air and tlien in water, their relative weights or specific... | |
 | 1851 - 804 pages
...fluids. To illustrate, I take the case of a solid and a liquid ; when a solid is immersed in a liquid, it loses a portion of its weight, equal to the weight of the displaced liquid. If the density of the solid be the same as that of the liquid, they will have for... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1855 - 468 pages
...the principle of Archimedes, namely, that a body immersed in a liquid NATURAL PHILOSOPHY. [Tyndall. loses a portion of its weight equal to the weight of the quantity of liquid which it displaces. 12. If what I have here stated should be found difficult to... | |
 | John Mitchell (F.C.S.) - 1868 - 840 pages
...nothing but an application of the Archimedean theorem, that when a solid body is immersed in a liquid, it loses a portion of its weight, equal to the weight of the fluid which it displaces or to the weight of its own bulk of the liquid. This is precisely the principle... | |
 | John Mitchell (F.C.S.) - 1868 - 808 pages
...nothing but an application of the Archimedean theorem, that when a solid body is immersed in a liquid, it loses a portion of its weight, equal to the weight of the fluid which it displaces or to the weight of its own bulk of the liquid. This is precisely the principle... | |
 | John Mitchell (F.C.S.) - 1868 - 802 pages
...nothing but an application of the Archimedean theorem, that when a solid body is immersed in a liquid, it loses a portion of its weight, equal to the weight of the fluid which it displaces or to the weight of its own bulk of the liquid. This is precisely the principle... | |
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Archimedean theorem, that when a solid body is immersed in a liquid, it loses a portion of its weight, equal to the weight of the fluid which it displaces or to the weight of its own bulk of the liquid. 
