* The cord that is moved toward the middle of the rod will acquire as much more weight as is that of the part of the rod from which it moves, and ... / * That weight which the rod gives more to one cord than to the other, the cords holding it suspended between them, will bear such proportion ... / * But when one of the cords is moved toward the middle of the rod, the remainder of the rod enclosed between the cords is no longer distributed in equal parts to its supports; rather, the weight that is joined from the stable cord to the already-moved cord will bear the same proportion as the motion made by the cord bears to the remainder of the rod.

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4-5 / * The rod that is suspended entirely between two cords at equal height will give of itself an equal weight to each.

21/4 3/4 / * But when this rod projects partly outside one of the cords that hold it suspended, the part enclosed between the cords does not give an equal load to each. / * The weight that divides from the stable cord and applies itself to the shifted cord will bear the same proportion as the motion of one of the cords toward the middle of the rod. / * But when one of the cords is moved toward the middle of the rod, you will find that the weight which departs from the immobile cord and applies itself to the mobile one bears the same proportion as the part of the rod closed off outside the cords bears to its remainder. / ** The cord that moves from one of the ends of the rod toward the middle ... / * The rod that is enclosed wholly and equally suspended between two cords likewise shares its weight equally to those cords. / * But when some part of that rod is left outside one of the cords. / * Such proportion will that weight have which is lacking to the one ... / * Such proportion will that weight of the rod have which is enclosed suspended between the cords ...