The philosophical works of the Honourable Robert Boyle esq.: abridged, methodized, and disposed under the general heads of physics, statics, pneumatics, natural history, chymistry, and medicine (1725)
Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691, Shaw, Peter, 1694-1763. ed · London, W. and J. Innys [etc.] · leaf 330
-cal cavity E. And thus, if the fphere had been made larger, a fmallquantity of water in the leg A B, would have fomewhac raifed a muchgreater weight of mercury than its own. Ttg. 13; The fecond part of our prefent propofition is proved thus. We took three open, glafs pipes, of the irregular… … Hydrojlatical Paradoxes, 505? thro* particular ftiait holes made in a cork fitted to the veflels mouth, Statics.whilft the water afcended to a certain height, thro* the lower orifice of \yy\Jevery pipe; then pouring a confiderable quantity of oil of turpentine throa funnel, into the vefiel, the…
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