46 CHARLES GRIFFIN & CO.'S PUBLICATIONS. 



Royal 8uo, Handsome Cloth, 25s. 



THE STABILITY OF SHIPS. 



BY 



SIR EDWARD J. REED, K.C.B., F.R.S., M.P., 



KNIGHT OF THE IMPERIAL ORDERS OF ST. STANILAUS OF RUSSIA; FRANCIS JOSEPH OF 

 AUSTRIA J MEDJIDIE OF TURKEY ; AND RISING SUN OF JAPAN ; VICE- 

 PRESIDENT OF THE INSTITUTION OF NAVAL ARCHITECTS. 



With numerous Illustrations and Tables. 



THIS 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 ROMME, together with those of our own Countrymen, 

 ATWOOD, MOSELEY, and a number of others. 



The modern developments of the subject, both home and foreign, are likewise treated 

 with much fulness, and brought down to the very latest date, so as to include the labours not 

 only of DARGMES, REECH (whose famous Memoire, 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, 

 JOHN, WHITE, 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. REECH, M. DAYMARD, 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. 



" Sir EDWARD REED'S ' STABILITY OF SHIPS ' is INVALUABLE. In it the STUDENT, new 

 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- 

 wise have to seek in an almost endless variety of publications, and some of which he would 

 possibly not be able to obtain at all elsewhere." Steamship. 



"This IMPORTANT AND VALUABLE WORK . . cannot be too highly recommended to 

 all connected with shipping interests." Iron. 



" This VERY IMPORTANT TREATISE, . . . the MOST INTELLIGIBLE, INSTRUCTIVE, and 



COMPLETE that has ever appeared." Nature. 



"The volume is an ESSENTIAL ONE for the shipbuilding profession." Westminster 

 Review. 



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