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Excerpt from An Elementary Treatise on Mechanics Comprehending the Doctrine of Equilibrium and Motion, as Applied to Solids and Fluids: Chiefly Compiled, and Designed for the Use of the Students of the University at Cambridge, New England
To show how this property, together with that of extension, is necessary to constitute a body, I will refer to familiar phenomena in which these properties are observed separately.
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