Stevinus
Americannoun
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This principle was not first enunciated, as is usually stated, and as Lagrange also asserts, by Galileo, but earlier, by Stevinus.
From Popular scientific lectures by Mach, Ernst
The balancing of force thus brought about constituted a stable equilibrium, Stevinus being the first to discriminate between such a condition and the unbalanced condition called unstable equilibrium.
From A History of Science — Volume 2 by Williams, Henry Smith
What business Stevinus had in this affair,—is the greatest problem of all:—It shall be solved,—but not in the next chapter.
From The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Sterne, Laurence
In hydrostatics, Stevinus had extended and applied the discovery of Archimedes.
From Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library by Spencer, Herbert
This proposition was rediscovered by Stevinus, a century later, and applied by him to the explanation of the mechanical powers.
From History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science by Draper, John William
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