Cooke, Josiah Parsons, 1827-1894 · Boston, Little, Brown and Company · leaf 302
onas it leaves below it more and more of the air, and has conse-quently less and less above it, there will be a less column sus-tained in the tube, inasmuch as the weight of the air above thetube, which is declared by Torricelli to be the force which sus-tains it, will be diminished by the… … Kg. 259. * Lardners Hand-Book of Natural Philosophy. 24 278 CHEMICAL PHYSICS. result, he wrote to his brother-in-law, who lived near the highmountain of Puy de D8me, in Auvergne, to make the experimentthere, where the result would be more decisive. You see, hewrites, that if it happens that the…
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