A letter to Dr. Cheyne : containing an account of the motion of water through orifices and pipes; and an answer to Dr. Morgan's remarks on Dr. Robinson's Treatise of the animal oeconomy.

  • Bryan Robinson
Date:
1735
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Credit: A letter to Dr. Cheyne : containing an account of the motion of water through orifices and pipes; and an answer to Dr. Morgan's remarks on Dr. Robinson's Treatise of the animal oeconomy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 3* ] the Weight of a Cylinder of Water whofe Magnitude is ax IG, or ax A^sT1' ®ut t^1*s F°rce is evidently equal to the Force, which generates the Motion of Water flowing thro’ a Pipe lying parallel to the Horizon, of an equal Diameter with the Hole, and inlerted into the infide of the VeflTel at an equal perpendicular Diftance from the Surface of the Water. i. The Doctor fuppoles D and H to be given, and confequently the moving Force, which is as D H, to be given ■, in which Cale V will be meafured by and then affirms, that if L be infinitely fmall, V mufi be infinitely great, and if L be infinitely great, V 'will be infinite¬ ly fmall. Here I muft acquaint this Author, that it by no means follows from L being infinitely fmall, that V muft