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ne direction, so that the one appearsto be a continuation of the other. This shows that OF LIQUIDS.] PHYSICS. 25 the plumbline does not slant towards the surface;for if it did, the reflection and the plumbline itselfwould not form one line, but would appear as twolines bent towards one another.… … Fig. 9. Indeed, I have only to fill some of these curiouslyshaped tubes with water in order to convince you thatthis is the case. You see the water is at the samelevel in all the tubes. 22. Water-level.—And this leads me to speakof the water-level which you see in the figure. If Iplace my eye in a…
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