Excerpt from The Principles of Hydrostatics: An Elementary Treatise on the Laws of Fluids, and Their Practical Applications Many very valuable treatises have been published on this subject; but from their being almost exclusively mathematical, and from the physical parts of the science having been detached from the theoretical, the student cannot derive much real advantage from them, unless he is very well acquainted with the Differential and Integral Calculus. For unless he is so prepared, he must content himself with adopting the results which he finds in them without being thoroughly acquainted with the processes by which they are obtained. It is obvious that this method of arriving at an end, without understanding the means, may weary but cannot improve the mind. 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.