Theoretically, it is just as true of the lever, that any weight, however small, may be made by its means to raise any weight, however large, as of the water bellows, or the hydrostatic press.

To prove this, we turn to Blaise Pascal. The Hydrostatic Paradox Pascal was a child prodigy who went on to become a mathematician, scientist, and philosopher. He noticed what he considered to be ...

Scientific American is part of Springer Nature, which owns or has commercial relations with thousands of scientific publications (many of them can be found at www ...