Difficiles nugae: or, observations touching the Torricellian experiment, and the various solutions of the same, especially touching the weight and elasticity of the air / [Anon].

  • Matthew Hale
Date:
1674
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Credit: Difficiles nugae: or, observations touching the Torricellian experiment, and the various solutions of the same, especially touching the weight and elasticity of the air / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    7 B aay ye the Airis a tenfible Body of fuch a‘ na- §!! ture, as isat the fame: time tenfible in | and na bredthas well aslength, and iw fuch its | Tu tenfion as clofely adheres to the: fides of | Inches the Tube, “as it dothat one end: to the’ | led top of the Tube, and atthe other endto ja the Mercurial column, Te I fhall not here enlarge with Inftan- gp oprel ces, to fhew, that the tenfion of the Aur, | ul col or anyother tenfible fluid Body. necef 9 farily effects attraction on the Bodies. to | le, which it is contiguous, but fhall referve pte that to the following Chapters: and 19 By have been'the longer in the explication geal ofthisInftance, becaufe it fully opens) icin the reafon of the fecond Initance, which | pngtete now next follows. Therefore, ition, 2. . The fecond Inftance’is, where 'a indi Tube clofed at one end, above twenty | jtance nine Inches long , fuppole ic four foot thin long, is entirely filled with Mercury, /!V, a1 and no Air admitted into it, and then | tlelpy inverted into a vellel: of reftagnant J Manor Mercury, without admiffion ofany Air) hyl; intoit, either upon itsinyerfion or im-|]} yp merfion, (which though it be difficult, 9) {im,, | mays
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