as On Machines in General. 



The analysis leaving nothing further to be done, the con» 

 tents of this water may be stated as follows, viz. 



V. Essay upon Machines in General. Btj M. Carnot, 

 Mernber of the French Institute, &c. &c. 



[Concluded from vol. xxx. p. 320.] 



Fourth Corollary. 



XXVI. i. HAVE proved (XIX) that the indeterminate 

 equation (F) contains all the laws of equilibrium and of 

 movement in hard bodies : I now go further, and I say 

 that this equation agrees equally with bodies which are not 

 so, and consequently this general law extends indiscrimi- 

 nately to all bodies in nature. In fact, when several bodies, 

 which are not hard, act upon each other, in any given 

 manner, if we conceive the movement that each particle 

 would have t^ken, if it h.ad been free, as decomposed into 

 two, one of which is what it would have really taken, the 

 other will be destroyed ; whence it evidently follows, that 

 if the bodies had been hard, and had not had other movc- 



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