Some articles on balances, balance:
... specific weights, such as those based on the theory of balances and weighing. 1121 – Al-Khazini publishes The Book of the Balance of Wisdom, in which he invents a hydrostatic balance for measuring specific gravity, and proposes that the. 1589 – Galileo Galilei describes a hydrostatic balance for measuring specific gravity ...
Famous quotes containing the words biology, energy and/or balance:
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