 | Archimedes - 1897 - 528 pages
...passing through OA, OB. Then the section is, by hypothesis, a circle whose centre is 0. Proposition 2. The surface of any fluid at rest is the surface of...sphere whose centre is the same as that of the earth. Suppose the surface of the fluid cut by a plane through 0, the centre of the earth, in the curve ABGD.... | |
 | Archimedes - 1897 - 524 pages
...; which is contrary to the assumption. Therefore the surface cannot but be a sphere. Proposition 2. The surface of any fluid at rest is the surface of a sphere ivhose centre is the same as that of the earth. Suppose the surface of the fluid cut by a plane through... | |
 | Sir Thomas Little Heath - 1920 - 74 pages
...surface] which passes through the centre of gravity of the body ". In Prop. 2 Archimedes proves that the surface of any fluid at rest is the surface of a sphere the centre of which is the centre of the earth. Props. 3-7 deal with the behaviour, when placed in... | |
 | Henry Crew - 1928 - 428 pages
...circumference of a circle whose centre is the aforesaid point, the surface is that of a sphere. Proposition 2 The surface of any fluid at rest is the surface of...sphere whose centre is the same as that of the earth. Proposition 3 Of solids those which, size for size, are of equal weight with a fluid will, if let down... | |
 | Henry Crew - 1928 - 434 pages
...circumference of a circle whose centre is the aforesaid point, the surface is that of a sphere. Proposition 2 The surface of any fluid at rest is the surface of a sphere whos* centre is the same as that of the earth. . Proposition 3 Of solids those which, size for size,... | |
 | Peter Duffett-Smith - 1988 - 204 pages
...masses and inversely proportional to the square of their separation. great circ/e: any circle drawn on the surface of a sphere whose centre is the same as that of the sphere. Greenwich mean time (GMT): this is ambiguous and is not now used in the Astronomical Almanac.... | |
 | Morris Kline - 1990 - 434 pages
...through the center of gravity of the body. Some of the theorems he proves in Book I are: Proposition 2. The surface of any fluid at rest is the surface of a sphere whose center is the same as that of the earth. Proposition 3. Of solids those which, size for size, are of... | |
 | T. E. Rihll - 1999 - 180 pages
...[of a circle] whose centre is the aforesaid point, the surface is that of a sphere. Proposition 2. The surface of any fluid at rest is the surface of...sphere whose centre is the same as that of the earth. Proposition 3. Of solids those which, size for size, are of equal weight with a fluid will, if let... | |
 | Arhimēdēs - 2004 - 522 pages
...; which is contrary to the assumption. Therefore the surface cannot but be a sphere. Proposition 2. The surface of any fluid at rest is the surface of...sphere whose centre is the same as that of the earth. Suppose the surface of the fluid cut by a plane through 0, the centre of the earth, in the curve ABC'D.... | |
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Proposition 2. The surface of any fluid at rest is the surface of a sphere whose centre is the same as that of the earth. 