A Discourse Presented to the Most Serene Don Cosimo II., Great Duke of Tuscany, Concerning the Natation of Bodies Vpon, and Submersion In, t · Galileo Galilei
THEOREME XI.
Let, therefore, the Cone be _A B D_, double in Gravity to the water, and let its height be tripple the height of the Rampart of water L B: It is already manifest, that it shall not stay wholly out of the water, because the Cylinder being comprehended betwixt the Ramparts _L B D P_, equall to the Cone _A B D_, and the Matter of the Cone, beig double in Gravity to the water, it is evident that the weight of the said Cone shall be double to the weight of the Mass of water equall to the Cylinder _L B D P_: Therefore it shall not rest in this state, but shall descend.
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