Philosophical instructor, or, Webster's elements of natural philosophy : subdivided into principles and illustrations ; intended for academies, medical schools, and the popular class-room (1824)
Eaton, Amos, 1776-1842, Webster, John, fl. 1804-1824 · Albany : Printed by Websters and Skinners ... · leaf 108
be suf-ficient for our purposeto describe those thatare the least complex,yet sufficiently accuratefor common experi-ments. They are madenearly like common scales, but with much greaternicety, and the strings to the scale at one end of thebeam are shortened, so as to admit the water cylinderand… … l06 bENSITY AND SPECIFIC der, and the difference of weight of the body in thetwo mediums, shows the difference of the specificgravities, which is equal in weight to a bulk of waterof the same magnitude as the body immersed. Therelative proportion is then found in figures, by statingthe question as…
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