Roberval balance

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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)

  1. A kind of weighing scale with two identical horizontal beams attached, one directly above the other, to a vertical column.
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