Recreations in science and natural philosophy (1844)
Ozanam, Jacques, 1640-1717. n 93006101, Montucla, Jean Etienne, 1725-1799. n 85800222, Hutton, Charles, 1737-1823. n 84160398, Riddle, Edward, 1788-1854. no2004015425 · London : Thomas Tegg · leaf 631
le to escape, when filled with the same liquor to a height ever so little greater. Those who may be desirous of giving to this small hydraulic machine a more mysterious air, add to it a small figure, which they call Tantalus, because in the attitude of drinking ; but as soon as the water has… … by a small figure in the attitude of a man stooping to drink, and having its lips a little above the orifice s. If water be poured into this vessel, as soon as it reaches the lips of the figure, being above the orifice s, it will begin to run off ; and a sort of syphonic motion will take place, in…
Scientific recreations
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