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remain in that estate in ye water, and because that cork is 4 times lighter than water, B C E D a cylinder of cork A F G H, it will descend, and if ye superficies of ye water is double to ye of ye base of ye cylinder, ye water will not be elevated but to ye eight part of ye height of ye cylinder, and ye cylinder shall not descend into ye water but 1/4 [[strikethrough]] shall be 3/4 of [[/strikethrough]] so that ye part wch remains out of ye water shall be 3/4 of ye whole cylinder.

  The water joyns itself sometimes to light bodys, and is elevated a little concavely against ye part above K, and sometimes it make a little sinking below as has been explained above wch may make some difficulty;  but ye little water wch is elevated above ye rest of ye surface of ye water will make there but little alteration, and we do not consider it.

  That property of ye water to stick or not to stick to certain bodys, makes appear sometimes surprising effects.  See ye examples.

[[image: drawing of a "V" shaped pedestal glass with outline A (left side), B (base), C (right side), there is a ball K sitting on the rim of the glass.  About half way down the glass is a line D E across the glass, with a circle [[?ball]] F on the line.]]

  A B C is a glass half full of water whose upper surface is D E:  if there is small buble of froth full of air, as F, or a small hollow ball of glass full of air lighter than ye water or some other ye like body, it will go towards ye edges E or D, and will keep there as if glewed;  but on the contrary if ye glass is full of water as A C then ye small ball K shall not approach ye sides but if pushed will return towards ye middle in but there are other small light bodys wch make contrary effects.

  Take a small ball of wax not wet, and place it gently upon ye water in F when ye glass is not full it will fly ye sides, and if you put it in K towards the midle when ye glass is full it will go hastily towards C until it touch ye side of ye glass.  These effects may be explained in this manner.

  A B is ye surface of ye water when ye glass it not full, C D is ye side of ye glass where ye water makes a small elevation as e f g, E is ye ball of wax wch being slippy and placed gently upon ye water makes there a small hole H I K because that ye water doth not stick to it, and ye ball enters below ye face of ye water A H K B until that part wch is below with ye air wch is comprised below ye horizontal pointed line weighs as much as ye water wch contained.  There in ye space comprised by that pricked line H K and ye crooked line H I K, now if we advance ye ball towards g, when ye point K of ye extremity of concavity H I K is seen to approach somewhat nearrer ye side of ye glass than ye point g then ye water which is in e f being no more sustained by that which is at ye point g descends, and pusheth to ye point g the curve e f g remaining in its first estate.

[[image: drawing of the upper part of a V shaped glass, A left side, C D right side, with a level of liquid indicated between the sides by a curving line (miniscus) creeping up the left inside wall of A, dipping into a depression H I J in the center (with a round ball E resting in the depression) on across the surface and g f e (miniscus) creeping up the right inside wall C D of the glass.  There are horizontal dotted lines from H to K and g to a point on side C D labeled B.]]

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mandc: Added detailed image description; changed a few letters - E F G to e f g; changed H J K to H I K [[in this illustration author uses upper and lower case letters that must be distinguished, - upper case I appears as J in this script. http://echo.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/ECHOdocuView?url=%2Fpermanent%2Flibrary%2FQERNH1MN%2Fpageimg&start=11&mode=imagepath&pn=119&ww=0.1019&wh=0.1899&wx=0.7198&wy=0.5713