The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 393
ir, of which the specific * The plane of flotation, is the horizontal section of the body, coincident with thesurface of the fluid ; or it is that horizoutal sectioQ whith .sej-arates the immersed andemerged.portioDjOf the-body. 358 THE CIVIL ENGINEER AND ARCHITECTS JOURNAL. LDecembbb, frravity, as… … Then, since the prism is uniform throughout the whole length,the weiglits and solidities of tlie floating body and the immer-sed part of it, will be truly represented by the areas of thetriangles ABV and CDV. Now, by the riiles of mensurationand by logarithms, the area of the triangle A B V is…
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