The hydrostaticks; : or, The weight, force, and pressure of fluid bodies made evident by physical, and sensible experiments, together with some miscellany observations, the last whereof is a short history of coal, and of all the common and proper accidents thereof, a subject never treated of before. (1672)
Sinclair, George, d. 1696 · Edinburgh : Printed by George Swintoun, James Glen, and Thomas Brown · leaf 82
-nant Mercury to fupply that lofs, feing two Fluids cannotcounterpoife one another, unlefs they be in aquilibrio,Andcontrariwife, affoon as the Tub begins to beere&ed,the Pondus of the Mercury begins to grow, and fo over-comes the Potentia of the furface, till by falling down itcan do no more.… … M tq-7\, E H K afW JjL M jN .16- ! \ o -J. B %« fy-Sf
Hydrostatics · Coal
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