Excerpt from The Principles of Hydrostatics: An Elementary Treatise on the Laws of Fluids, and Their Practical Applications In the following pages I have endeavoured to exhibit the Laws of Fluids, and the principles of their practical applications in a form adapted to all students of Mathematical and Natural Philosophy. Many very valuable treatises have been published on this subject; but from their being either almost exclusively practical or exclusively mathematical, and from the physical parts of the science being detached from the theoretical, the student cannot derive much real advantage from them, unless previously acquainted with the principles of the science, and with the Differential and Integral Calculus; for unless so previously prepared, he must content himself with adopting results without being thoroughly acquainted with the processes by which they are obtained. It is abvious that this method of arriving at an end, without understanding the means, may employ, but cannot properly instruct the mind. I have endeavoured in the following treatise to develop the principles of the science with the use of none but the most elementary mathematics; so that the student, who now either partially or wholly neglects this beautiful branch of Natural Philosophy, from the uninviting character which Analysis presents to those who are not familiar with it, may proceed to its study, with the knowledge of a few propositions of Geometry, Algebra and Mechanics, and for understanding by far the greater portion of the subject even that amount of previous knowledge is not necessary. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.