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" Archimedes stated that a body immersed in a fluid is buoyed up by a force equal to the weight of the displaced fluid. "
The Cambridge Companion to the Hellenistic World - Page 288
edited by - 2006
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Philosophy in the Ancient World: An Introduction

James A. Arieti - 2005 - 420 pages
...damaging it. While sitting in his bathtub, the story goes, he had the insight that a body in water is buoyed up by a force equal to the weight of the displaced water. He was so thrilled by this insight that he ran naked from his tub through the streets shouting...
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Management of Prader-Willi Syndrome

Merlin Butler - 2006 - 596 pages
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Introductory Course of Natural Philosophy for the Use of Schools and Academies

A. Ganot - 2007 - 512 pages
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The ROV Manual: A User Guide for Observation Class Remotely Operated Vehicles

Robert D Christ, Robert L. Wernli, Sr - 2011 - 320 pages
...Hydrostatic equilibrium According to Archimedes' principle, any body partially or totally immersed in a fluid is buoyed up by a force equal to the weight of the displaced fluid. If somehow one 22 The ROV Manual Displaced fluid 1 Figure 2.6 Hydrostatic equilibrium of ROV...
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Out of Chaos: Evolution from the Big Bang to Human Intellect

Wayne M. Bundy - 2007 - 526 pages
...contributed many aspects of physics, becoming best known for his principle that a body immersed in a fluid is buoyed up by a force equal to the weight of the displaced fluid. Geographer Strabo (ca 63 BC-21 AD) wrote extensively on people and places. Physician Galen (ca...
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Instruments & Control Systems, Volume 53

1980 - 806 pages
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Theg mchog shin tu rgyas paʼi dbu ma chen po rnam par nges pa zhes bya ba ...

Tāranātha (Jo-nang-pa) - 1943 - 502 pages
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Encyclopedia Americana, Volume 2

1993 - 888 pages
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The Encyclopedia Americana: Ankara-Azusa

2000 - 948 pages
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Journal of the Franklin Institute, Volume 173, Issues 1033-1036

1912 - 722 pages
...and of one square unit cross-section. From the last consideration it follows that a submerged body is buoyed up by a force equal to the weight of the displaced fluid. For the difference of vertical pressure on the ends of any small vertical prism drawn in the...
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