This calling was too precarious to suit his equipoised mind.
"Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution"
L. Carroll Judson
I have here a jar suspended at one end of a balance-it is now equipoised; but when I pour this carbonic acid into the jar on the one side which now contains air, you will see it sink down at once, because of the carbonic acid that I pour into it.
"The Chemical History Of A Candle"
Michael Faraday
For instance, in the volume just referred to it is stated by M. Gaston Tissandier that on one occasion when aloft he threw overboard a chicken bone, and, immediately consulting a barometer, had to admit on "clearest evidence that the bone had caused a rise of from twenty to thirty yards, so delicately is a balloon equipoised in the air."
"The Dominion of the Air"
J. M. Bacon