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We compare the results of our earlier paper on the floating in neutral equilibrium at arbitrary orientation in the sense of Finn-Young with the literature on its counterpart in the sense of Archimedes. We add a few remarks of personal and social-historical character.
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I thank professor Zalgaller of Rehovot, Israel, who sent me a scan of his personal copy of the original of [22] and patiently answered my questions. The historical and personal information pertaining to [22] and [21] came from these communications, as well as from [1] and [29]. I thank professor Alexey Borisov of Izhevsk, Russia, who provided me with the originals of [21,22]. I thank professor Robert Finn of Palo Alto, California, who pointed out to me a connection between the results of [12] and the capillary floating and encouraged me to publish these results. The work was partially supported by MNiSzW Grant N N201 384834 and by NCN Grant DEC-2011/03/B/ST1/00407. A preliminary version of the present work is [15].
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Gutkin, E. Addendum to: Capillary Floating and The Billiard Ball Problem. J. Math. Fluid Mech. 15, 425–430 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00021-012-0111-4
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