Cooke, Josiah Parsons, 1827-1894 · Boston, Little, Brown and Company · leaf 256
eeded in giving to this liquid sphere a rotation bymeans of very simple machinery, and found that, by regulatingthe velocity, he could caiise it to become flattened at the poles, tothrow off rings and satellites, and thus in various ways illustratethe nebular hypothesis of Laplace. (130.) A liquid… … Fig. 224. sels, A, B, C, D, communicating tlirongli the tiibe mn, in all ofwhich the liquid stands at the same level. That this must neces-sarily be the case, is easily shown. Consider any vertical sectionin the tube m n, separating theliquid in D from that in C,and let us denote the area ofits…
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