Cooke, Josiah Parsons, 1827-1894 · Boston, Little, Brown and Company · leaf 261
iquid, the pancontaining the weights will preponderate. According to the prin-ciple, this buoyancy is equal to the weight of the water whichthe cylinder has displaced. But from the construction of theapparatus, the cup A will hold exactly this amount of water;and hence, if the principle is correct,… … Eig 232. It appears, then, that the cylinder is buoyed up by a forceequal to the weight of the liquid which it displaces. But this statement expresses onlyone half of the truth ; forit is a necessary result ofthe equality of action andreaction, that the upwardpressure of the water on thecylinder…
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