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
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[[Plate I. Pneumaticks]]
15
PNEUMATICKS.
An Explication of the First PLATE.
Figure 1. Are several Torricellian Tubes or Barometers of different
Shapes, Bores, and Positions; but where the perpendicular Altitude of the
Quicksilver in the Tubes, above the Level of the Surface of that in the
Bason, is ever the same, or between 28 and 31 inches high; which is the
known Counterpoise between 32 and 36 Feet of Water; and to the entire
Atmosphere in its several States and Elevations, where the Bases or the
several Tubes are supposed equal.
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