Crossword-Solution: HYDROSTATICAL
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Hydrostatical | a. | Of or relating to hydrostatics; pertaining to, or in accordance with, the principles of the equilibrium of fluids. |
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| of or relating to fluids at rest or to the pressures they exert or transmit | 2 answers |
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This notion is plausible in a merely hydrostatical point of view, and is supposed to have been adopted by most of the Fellows of Trinity, but certainly not by Thorp, who is one of the most amiable of their number.
Here, by the way, is a specimen of paradox in the true and laudable sense--in that sense according to which Boyle entitled a book "Hydrostatical Paradoxes;" for, though it wears a _primâ facie_ appearance of falsehood, yet in the end you will be sensible that it is not only true, but true in that way and degree which will oblige him who denies it to maintain an absurdity.
From the elementary works of geometry, Galileo passed to the writings of Archimedes; and while he was studying the hydrostatical treatise[3] of the Syracusan philosopher, he wrote his essay on the hydrostatical balance,[4] in which he describes the construction of the instrument, and the method by which Archimedes detected the fraud committed by the jeweller in the composition of Hiero's crown.
This is distinctly recognized by Pliny,[5] though their common use of aqueducts, in preference to pipes, has led to a supposition that this great hydrostatical principle was unknown to them.
Mechanics could boast of no trophy like the proposition of Archimedes on the equilibrium of the lever; no new and exact ideas like those of the same great man on statical and hydrostatical pressure; no novel and clear views like those developed in his treatise on floating bodies; no mechanical invention like the first of all steam-engines--that of Hero.