11 Apr 2014

Archimedes’ “On the Equilibrium of Planes”, Prop 8

 

by Corry Shores
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Archimedes


On the Equilibrium of Planes

or

The Centres of Gravity of Planes,

Book I


Proposition 8

[The following is quotation]


 

Proposition 8.

P8. If AB he a magnitude whose centre of gravity is C, and AD a part of it whose centre of gravity is F, then the centre of gravity of the remaining part will he a point G on FC produced such that

GC : GF = (AD) :(DE).

imageFor, if the centre of gravity of the remainder (DE) be not G, let it be a point H. Then an absurdity follows at once from Props. 6,7.




 

From:

Archimedes. “On the Equilibrium of Planes or The Centres of Gravity of Planes, Book I”. In The Works of Archimedes. Ed. T.L. Heath. Cambridge UP, 1897. Obtained at

https://archive.org/details/worksofarchimede00arch

 

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