 | Richard Helsham - Mechanics - 1767 - 458 pages
...itfelf; as will appear from the following experiment. Let Since a folid when immerfed in a liquid, lofes as much of its weight, as is equal to the weight of a portion of the liquid of the fame dimenfions with the folid, it follows, that all bodies whatever,... | |
 | Alexander Adam - 1794 - 748 pages
...heavier than water, when immerfed in it, difplaces a quantity of water equal to its own bulk, and lofes as much of its weight as is equal to the weight of that bulk of water. By weighing metals in water, we can difcover their adulterations or mixtures with... | |
 | John Imison - 1796 - 476 pages
...immerged may be confide red as equally prefled on all fides. 15. Every folid immerfed in a fluid, lofes fo much of its weight, as is equal to the weight of a quantity of that fluid of the fame dimenfion with the folid. 1 6. The fluid acquires the weight the... | |
 | Richard Helsham - Mechanics - 1802 - 500 pages
...water, preponderates with the weight of 200 grains. Since a folid when immerfed in a liquid, lofes as much of its weight, as is equal to the weight of a portion of the liquid of the fame dimenfions with the folid, it follows, that all bodies whatever,... | |
 | Alexander Adam - Classical dictionaries - 1802 - 914 pages
...heavier than water, when immerfed in it, difplaces a quantity of water equal to its own bulk, and lofes as much of its weight as is equal to the weight of that bulk of witer. By weighing metals in water, we can difcover their adulterations or mixtures with... | |
 | Thomas Hodson - Arithmetic - 1806 - 488 pages
...gravities. 7. When a body ii immerfed in a fluid that is fpecificalij lighter than the body, the body lofes as much of its weight as is equal to the weight of a quantity of the fluid of the fame bulk or magnitude. Therefore, the fpecific gravities of two bodies... | |
 | Akeroyde's padd (Dance) - 1812 - 352 pages
...it j and the use of this instrument is founded on the theorem of Archimedes, that any body weighed in water, loses as much of its weight, as is equal to the weight of the same bulk of water. The accident which led to this theorem, and established a principle, whose... | |
 | Jeremiah Joyce - Astronomy - 1815 - 680 pages
...to the weight of a quantity of water of the same bulk as the substance itself? Father. This is true, if the body be wholly immersed in water ; and with...same magnitude." I will now place this empty box on ih* bason filled to the edge with water, and, as Voi. IT. K. before, it drives over a quantity of the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Physical geography - 1816 - 470 pages
...sink; if lighter, it will swim. Universally, therefore, a body plunged in water, * Nollet's Lectures. loses as much of its weight as is equal to the weight of a body of water of its own bulk. Some light bodies, therefore, such as cork, lose much of their weight,... | |
 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1821 - 356 pages
...nothing at all. 5. A body immersed in a fluid, which is specifically lighter than itself, loses so much of its weight as is equal to the weight of a quantity of the fluid of the same bulk with itself. Hence a body loses more of its weight in a heavier... | |
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He first established the truth, that a body plunged in a fluid loses as much of its weight as is equal to the weight of an equal volume of the fluid! 
