Millikan, Robert Andrews, Gale, Henry Gordon · Boston : Ginn and Co. · leaf 34
Fig. 18. Method of weighing a body under water Specific gravity of body = Weight of body Weight of water displaced Making application of Archimedes principle, we have c -n -^ i? 1 1 Weight of body Specific gravity of body = „ ^ • i . •— ,— ^ ° Loss 01 weight m water Fig. 18 shows a common method of… … Akchimeues (287-212 b.c.)(Bust in Nai^les Museum) The celebrated geometrician of antiquity; lived at Syracuse,Sicily; first made a determination of tt and computed the areaof the circle; discovered the laws of the lever and was author ofthe famous saying, Give me where I may stand and I will…
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