Roberval balance
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English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Presented to the French Academy of Sciences by the French mathematician Gilles Personne de Roberval in 1669.
Noun
[edit]Roberval balance (plural Roberval balances)
- A kind of weighing scale with two identical horizontal beams attached, one directly above the other, to a vertical column.