 | James Hann, Isaac Dodds - Mechanics - 1833 - 234 pages
...him a crown, containing 63 ounces of gold. The workmen thought that substituting part silver was only a proper perquisite ; which taking air, Archimedes...into a vessel of water, found it raised the fluid 8-2245 cubic inches : and having discovered that the inch of gold more critically weighed 10-36 ounces,... | |
 | John H. Harney - Algebra - 1840 - 298 pages
...ounces of gold. The workman, attempting to deceive, substituted a part silver. After it was finished, Archimedes was appointed to examine it, who, on putting...into a vessel of water, found it raised the fluid 8.2245 cubic inches. He weighed carefully a cubic inch of gold, and found its weight to be 10.36 ounces.... | |
 | Nathan Scholfield - Conic sections - 1845 - 542 pages
...silver was only a proper perquisite ; but Hiero, suspecting that fraud had been practised, Archimides was appointed to examine it ; who on putting it into a vessel of water, found it raised the fluid 8.2245 cubic inches ; and having discovered that the inch of gold more critically weighed 10.36 ounces,... | |
 | Nathan Scholfield - Geometry - 1845 - 506 pages
...silver was only a proper perquisite; but Hiero, suspecting that fraud had been practised, Archimides was appointed to examine it ; who on putting it into a vessel of water, found it raised the fluid 8.2245 cubic inches ; and having discovered that the inch of gold more critically weighed 10.36 ounces,... | |
 | James Hann - Mechanics - 1848 - 352 pages
...** S to u. Hence, expresses the of gold. The workmen thought that substituting part silver was only a proper perquisite ; which taking air, Archimedes...into a vessel of water, found it raised the fluid 8.2245 cubic inches; and having discovered that the inch of gold more critically weighed 10.36 ounces,... | |
 | Thomas Tucker Smiley - Arithmetic - 1854 - 192 pages
...crown, containing 63 ounces of gold. The workman thought, that substituting a part silver was only a proper perquisite ; which taking air, Archimedes...into a vessel of water, found it raised the fluid 8.2245 cubic inches; and having discovered that the inch of gold weighed 10.36 ounces, and that of... | |
 | Thomas Tucker Smiley - 1868 - 238 pages
...substituting a part silver was only a proper 1 perquisite ; which taking air, Archimedes was appointed I to examine it, who, on putting it into a vessel of water, found it raised the fluid 8.2245 cubic inches; and having discovered that the inch of gold weighed 10.36 ounces, . and that of... | |
 | Education - 1886 - 712 pages
...crown containing 63 ounces of pure gold. The workman thought that substituting a part silver was only a proper perquisite, which taking air, Archimedes...into a vessel of water, found it raised the fluid 8.2245 cubic inches ; and, having discovered that an inch of gold weighed 10.36 ounces, and silver... | |
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