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Página 93
... water . The weight of the air is variable . When the surface of a fluid , as water , quicksilver , & c . is exposed to the air , it is pressed by the at- mosphere equally on every part , and is at rest PNEUMATICS . 98.
... water . The weight of the air is variable . When the surface of a fluid , as water , quicksilver , & c . is exposed to the air , it is pressed by the at- mosphere equally on every part , and is at rest PNEUMATICS . 98.
Página 94
... quicksilver r , and through the collar of leather as at B , suspend a glass tube , closed at the upper end , over the quicksilver . The apparatus thus situated is to be placed on the brass plate of the air pump , and the air completely ...
... quicksilver r , and through the collar of leather as at B , suspend a glass tube , closed at the upper end , over the quicksilver . The apparatus thus situated is to be placed on the brass plate of the air pump , and the air completely ...
Página 95
... quicksilver . If a glass tube upward of thirty one inches long be filled with quicksilver and have its aperture immersed in a bason of the same fluid , the altitude of the mercury in it will be found to vary both at different times and ...
... quicksilver . If a glass tube upward of thirty one inches long be filled with quicksilver and have its aperture immersed in a bason of the same fluid , the altitude of the mercury in it will be found to vary both at different times and ...
Página 113
... quicksilver into its pores , and to let water pass through it : for a concave sphere of gold hath , when filled with water , and soldered up , upon pressing it with a great force , suffered the water to ouze through it , and stand all ...
... quicksilver into its pores , and to let water pass through it : for a concave sphere of gold hath , when filled with water , and soldered up , upon pressing it with a great force , suffered the water to ouze through it , and stand all ...
Página 337
... quicksilver in the bulb being expanded , every increase of heat ne- cessarily requires a greater space for its substance , and therefore rises in the tube . In the construc- tion of thermometers , two extremes , the one of heat , and ...
... quicksilver in the bulb being expanded , every increase of heat ne- cessarily requires a greater space for its substance , and therefore rises in the tube . In the construc- tion of thermometers , two extremes , the one of heat , and ...
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Página 40 - By this way of analysis we may proceed from compounds to ingredients; and from motions to the forces producing them; and in general, from effects to their causes; and from particular causes to more general ones, till the argument end in the most general.
Página 395 - Matthew then, among the Jews, wrote a gospel in their own language, while Peter and Paul were preaching the gospel at Rome, and founding a church there.
Página 40 - As in mathematics, so in natural philosophy, the investigation of difficult things by the method of analysis, ought ever to precede the method of composition. This analysis consists in making experiments and observations, and in drawing general conclusions from them by induction, and admitting of no objections against the conclusions, but such as are taken from experiments, or other certain truths. For hypotheses are not to be regarded in experimental philosophy.
Página 394 - Among these were reckoned the four Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John; the Acts of the Apostles; the Epistles of the apostle Paul...
Página 239 - The surface of a sphere is equal to four times the area of a circle...
Página 40 - And although the arguing from experiments and observations by induction be no demonstration of general conclusions, yet it is the best way of arguing which the nature of things admits of, and may be looked upon as so much the stronger, by how much the induction is more general.
Página 149 - When the whole is put for a part, or a part for the whole; a genus for a species, or a species for a genus; the singular...
Página 205 - He is likewise to decide the elections of knights of the shire, (subject to the control of the house of commons,) of coroners, and of verderors ; to judge of the qualification of voters, and to return such as he shall determine to be duly elected.
Página 35 - ... connected together in the fancy, that the idea of the one seems, of its own accord, to call up and introduce that of the other. If the objects are still observed to succeed each other as before, this connection, or, as it has been called, this association of...
Página 112 - Hottoman to be a rescript, or answer of the sovereign, delivered, by advice of his council, to some college, order, or body of people, upon consulting him on some case of their community. The like answer, given to any particular person, is called simply rescript.