Cooke, Josiah Parsons, 1827-1894 · Boston, Little, Brown and Company · leaf 261
equal 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 must be accompa-nied by an equivalent down-ward pressure of the… … THE THREE STATES OP MATTER. 237 arrange the experiment as represented in Fig. 233. We firstbalance the vessel of water, and then immerse in the liquid thebrass cylinder, supported as represented in the figure. The■water will be found to have gained in weight, and in order torestore the equilibrium…
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