Johnson's natural philosophy and key to philosophical charts : illustrated with 500 cuts; being reduced photographic copies of all the diagrams contained in the author's philosophical series of indestructible school charts ; for the use of schools and families (1878)
I HYDROSTATICS. 85 107. Figure 12.—Hydrostatic paradox.—This paradox isanother experimental proof that lic^uids press according to their heightand not their quantity. Fill a glass jar, T, with water, and balance it on a scale-beam with a Fig. 12. … weight, 8; then pour out most of the water, letting the balance-weight;remain, and replace the jar, which, of course, will not balance theweight. If now there be introduced into the jar a cylindrical piece ofAvood, or other solid substance, a trifle smaller than the jar, crowdingit down until the…
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