A Course of Mechanical, Magnetical, Optical, Hydrostatical and Pneumatical Experiments: perform'd by Francis Hauksbee, and the Explanatory Lectures read by William Whiston, M.A.Whiston, William
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A Course of Mechanical, Magnetical, Optical, Hydrostatical and Pneumatical Experiments: perform'd by Francis Hauksbee, and the Explanatory Lectures read by William Whiston, M.A.
Whiston, William
Physical instruments; Physics -- Early works to 1800; Physics -- Experiments
_Fig. 3._ Is the elastical spiral Spring of a Watch, out of its Box, and
unwinding it self more weakly, as it is less restrained.
_Fig. 4._ Is the same Spring in its Barrel A B join'd by a Chain to its
Fusee C D, or spiral Line about a Cone, which Cone has the Semidiameter or
Distance from its Axis in the very same Proportion, greater as the Spring
is weaker, and lesser as the Spring is stronger: that so the absolute
Force on the Wheels of the Watch may be ever the same, for the exact
Equality of their Motion in all Cases.
_Fig. 5._ Is an Imitation of a Waggon or Coach, with its fore Wheels E F,
either equal (as here,) or else lesser, or greater, than the hinder G H;
to be drawn by a Weight w in the Scale, either upon an Horizontal, or upon
an Inclined Plain A B, and to get over any Obstacle as C D: The Quadrant
M, and Bullet N, are to shew the Quantity of the Elevation of that Plain,
for the Tryal of Experiments relating to all such Sort of Vehicles.
_Fig. 6._ Is a strong Machine, with a Wheel O P, and its Winch R, and
String O P L K, its lesser Barrel K L, circular Table A B, Scale with a
Weight w, suspended by a String that comes through the hollow Axis C D,
and oblique Tube G C, in which Mercury or a Bullet is included; its Screw
H; its Balls I and B, and their Strings; To shew that Motion once begun
always continues, till some other Cause stops it: That absolute and
respective Motion are entirely different: And to shew withal the Endeavour
of Bodies that move circularly to recede from the Center of their Motion,
on inclined, as well as horizontal Plains, and that in the same Circle in
a duplicate Proportion to their Velocity.
[[Plate VI. ― Sutton Nicholls sculp:]]
MECHANICKS. 6
An Explication of the Sixth PLATE.
Figure 1. Is an Instrument to shew the various Parabola's that are made by
Projectils, and particularly the Truth of the several Rules in the Art of
Gunnery. Wherein A B is a Tunnel full of Quicksilver, D K is a Glass Tube,
let into a Groove or Frame of Wood for its Support, and at K is a fine
Stem, accommodated to the Arch of a Quadrant L M, and turning upon its
Center, to direct the projected Quicksilver to any Angle; while the Tube's
perpendicular Altitude, or the Force that produces the Projection, is
either the same, or altered by a different Inclination at Pleasure,
according to the Nature of the several Experiments.
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