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Chapters: 196 Births, 196 Deaths, Cao Chong, List of State Leaders in 196, Yufuluo, Zhang Ji, Cao Bao, Beolhyu of Silla, Yan Yu, Zhou Xin, 196 Ad. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 28. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Cao Chong (196 208) was a son of the powerful 3rd century Chinese Chancellor Cao Cao. He was renowned as a child prodigy, having the intelligence of an adult at the age of five. He is best known for his ingenious method of weighing an elephant using the law of buoyancy. Cao Chong died of sickness at the age of thirteen. Cao Chong was born the eldest son of Cao Cao and Consort Huan. According to the Records of the Three Kingdoms by Chen Shou, Cao Chong had the intelligence of an adult around the age of five and six. On one occasion, the southern warlord Sun Quan sent a gift of an elephant to Cao Cao, who wished to know the animal's weight. No one could think of a method but young Cao Chong had an ingenious idea. Somewhat similar to Archimedes' solution to the legendary Problem of the Crown, Cao Chong asked to have the elephant loaded onto a boat, on which the water level was marked. The elephant was then replaced with smaller weighable objects until the boat was submerged to the same level. The weight of the elephant could then be found out by summing up the weights of all the objects. According to Joseph Needham, although no official treatise in the likes of Archimedes' principle was ever written regarding buoyancy in ancient China, there were observational precedents of it in the Rites of Zhou, compiled and edited during the early Han Dynasty (202 BCE - 220 CE). Joseph Needham states: Empirical use, of course, was made of principle, as in the floating of arrows and vehicle wheels in water by the and Han technicians, in order to determine their equilibrium and add or r...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=99540


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  • ISBN-13: 9781157746676
  • Publisher: Books LLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC
  • Height: 152 mm
  • No of Pages: 32
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Weight: 59 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1157746675
  • Publisher Date: 15 Sep 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: 196 Births, 196 Deaths, Cao Chong, List of State Leaders in 196, Yufuluo, Zhang Ji, Cao Bao, Beolhyu of Silla, Yan Yu, Zhou Xin, 196 Ad
  • Width: 229 mm


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