Laplace, Pierre Simon, marquis de, 1749-1827, Bowditch, Nathaniel, 1773-1838, Bowditch, N. I. (Nathaniel Ingersoll), 1805-1861 · Boston, Hillard, Gray, Little, and Wilkins · leaf 1209
ng them to be mercury and water; it being very evidentthat the formulas which are used in this case may be applied to any other fluids, bymerely varying the constant quantities, so as to adapt them to the case actually underconsideration. When a drop of water rests upon a surface of mercury, there… … which Oo is a vertical axis passing through the centre of the drop; On,NaAAAaCnoHhBBBb, a section of the drop by a plane passing through this axis ; and WvGNa^A^AA(tNnpUBBB,b,FV, a section of the surface of the mercury by the same plane. Then the three surfaces we have alluded to are. First, the…
Celestial mechanics · Tides · Capillarity
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