Merchant, F. W. (Francis Walter), 1855-1937, Chant, Clarence Augustus, 1865-1956 · Toronto : Copp Clark · leaf 114
n decisive results he askedhis brother-in-law, P^rier, who resided at Clermont in thesouth of France, to test it on the Puy de Dome, a near-bymountain over 1,000 yards high. Using a tube about 4 ft.long, which had been filled with mercury and then invertedin a vessel containing mercury, Pdrier… … Fig. 127.—Mercury column sustained bythe pressure of the air. 104 PRESSURE IN GASES 1| lines (over 8 cm.). This result, he remarks, ravishedus all with admiration and astonishment.* Later, Pascaltried the experiment at the base and the summit of the towerof Saint-Jacques-de-la-Boucherie, in Paris,…
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