...itfelf; as will appear from the following experiment. Let Since a folid when immerfed in a liquid, lofes as much of its weight, as is equal to the weight of a portion of the liquid of the fame dimenfions with the folid, it follows, that all bodies whatever,...

...heavier than water, when immerfed in it, difplaces a quantity of water equal to its own bulk, and lofes as much of its weight as is equal to the weight of that bulk of water. By weighing metals in water, we can difcover their adulterations or mixtures with...

...immerged may be confide red as equally prefled on all fides. 15. Every folid immerfed in a fluid, lofes fo much of its weight, as is equal to the weight of a quantity of that fluid of the fame dimenfion with the folid. 1 6. The fluid acquires the weight the...

...water, preponderates with the weight of 200 grains. Since a folid when immerfed in a liquid, lofes as much of its weight, as is equal to the weight of a portion of the liquid of the fame dimenfions with the folid, it follows, that all bodies whatever,...

...heavier than water, when immerfed in it, difplaces a quantity of water equal to its own bulk, and lofes as much of its weight as is equal to the weight of that bulk of witer. By weighing metals in water, we can difcover their adulterations or mixtures with...

...gravities. 7. When a body ii immerfed in a fluid that is fpecificalij lighter than the body, the body lofes as much of its weight as is equal to the weight of a quantity of the fluid of the fame bulk or magnitude. Therefore, the fpecific gravities of two bodies...

...use of this instrument is founded on the theorem of Archimedes, that any body weighed in water, loses as much of its weight, as is equal to the weight of the same bulk of water. The accident which led to this theorem, and established a principle, whose...

...heavier than water, you may take it as an axiom, that " every body, when immersed in •water, loses as much of its weight as is equal to the weight of a bulk of water of the same magnitude." I will now place this empty box on ih* bason filled to the edge...

...lighter, it will swim. Universally, therefore, a body plunged in water, * Nollf t's Lectures. loses as much of its weight as is equal to the weight of a body of water of its own bulk. Some light bodies, therefore, such as cork, lose much of their weight,...

...nothing at all. 5. A body immersed in a fluid, which is specifically lighter than itself, loses so much of its weight as is equal to the weight of a quantity of the fluid of the same bulk with itself. Hence a body loses more of its weight in a heavier...