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Pee STABILITY OF SHIPS 
Ste WARD ‘Jo REED, KC By ERS: MEPS 
KNIGHT OF THE IMPERIAL ORDERS OF ST. STANILAUS OF RUSSIA; FRANCIS JOSEPH OF 
AUSTRIA ; MEDJIDIE OF TURKEY; AND RISING SUN OF JAPAN; VICE- 
PRESIDENT OF THE INSTITUTION OF NAVAL ARCHITECTS. 
With numerous Illustrations and Tables. 
Tuts work has been written for the purpose of placing in the hands of Naval Constructors, 
Shipbuilders, Officers of the Royal and Mercantile Marines, and all Students of Naval Science, 
a complete Treatise upon the Stability of Ships, and is the only work in the English 
Language dealing exhaustively with the subject. 
The plan upon which it has been designed is that of deriving the fundamental principles 
and definitions from the most elementary forms of floating bodies, so that they may be 
clearly understood without the aid of mathematics; advancing thence to all the higher and 
more mathematical developments of the subject. 
The work also embodies a very full account of the historical rise and progress of the 
Stability question, setting forth the results of the labours of BouGuER, BERNOULLI, Don 
Juan D’ULLOA, EuLER, CHAPMAN, and RomMg, together with those of our own Countrymen, 
Atwoop, MosELEY, and a number of others. 
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with much fulness, and brought down to the very latest date, so as to include the labours not 
only of DarGNiES, REECH (whose famous J/éozre, hitherto a sealed book to the majority 
of English naval architects, has been reproduced in the present work), RisBec, FERRANTY, 
Dupin, Guyou, and DaymarD, in France, but also those of RANKINE, WOOLLEY, ELGAR, 
Joun, Wuite, Gray, DENNY, INGLIS, and BENJAMIN, in Great Britain. 
In order to render the work complete for the purposes of the Shipbuilder, whether at 
home or abroad, the Methods of Calculation introduced by Mr. F. K. Barnes, Mr. Gray, 
M. Reecu, M. Daymarp, and Mr. Benjamin, are all given separately, illustrated by 
Tables and worked-out examples. The book contains more than 200 Diagrams, and is 
illustrated by a large number of actual cases, derived from ships of all descriptions, ‘but 
especially from ships of the Mercantile Marine. 
The work will thus be found to constitute the most comprehensive and exhaustive Treatise 
hitherto presented to the Profession on the Science of the STABILITY OF SHIPS. 
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to the subject, will find the path prepared for him, and all difficulties explained with the 
utmost care and accuracy ; the SHIP-DRAUGHTSMAN will find all the methods of calculation at 
present in use fully explained and illustrated, and accompanied by the Tables and_Forms 
employed ; the SHIPOWNER will find the variations in the Stability of Ships due to differences 
in forms and dimensions fully discussed, and the devices by which the state of his ships under 
all conditions may be graphically represented and easily understood ; the NAVAL ARCHITECT 
will find brought together and ready to his hand, a mass of information which he would other- 
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