Cooke, Josiah Parsons, 1827-1894 · Boston, Little, Brown and Company · leaf 250
of the index-rod c, whichwe push down until it just touches the surface. We then draw offthe water, and, having replaced the vessel M by the smaller ves-sel P, we fill this with water to the same height as marked by theindex, when we find that the mercury rises in the branch C toprecisely the same… … Fig. 220. sure, then, is independent of the form of the vessel or of thequantity of water ; and, since the base of tlie vessel is the same inboth cases, (that is, the surface of the mercury in the tiibe A,}and tlie height of the liquid also the same, it is evident that theequality of pressure is a…
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