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An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth (1888)

Gwilt, Joseph, 1784-1863, Papworth, Wyatt Angelicus Van Sandau, 1822-1894 · London Longmans, Green · leaf 367

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dity by the dis-tance of their centres of gravity. Lastly, dividingthe sum of these products by the solidity of the en-tire body, the quotient gives on the axis the dis-tance PG of this third plane from the centre ofgravity of the irregular solid. Mechanically, where two of the surfaces of a… … Fig. lAI. Klg 44H. Chap. 1. MECHANICS AND STATICS. 347 tlie centre of gravity, because that centre is not in the lowest point till it fall in the plumbline. Mark the line AB upon it; then hang the body up by any other point D, with aplumb line DE, which will also pass through the centre of gravity,…

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