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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    tation of the atmofpherical Cylinder: jist upon the orifice B, nor any great Ela- | fli fticity of the Air that drives up the Wa- |filp ter, but anatural circulation of the por |thit tion of Air into the {pace derelicted ' by [Halt the'Water ; and the immiffion or inft- nuation of the Air into that Cavity; 1s the Effe@ not the Caufe of the receffion of the Water. Cylinder fufpendedin the Glafs Tube. } /f; And when it is replied, that the like fhe fufpenfion’ happens; af the Mercurial five Engin be placed in'aclofe room, ‘yea OF non ina‘Glalsevery way‘clofed, that. adnaits fh: « novany fuch Mercurial column, but in-Idi.. terceptsit and its preflure by its clofurel|oy), every way. We are again told, thathhy., thatlittle portjonof Air included with-]
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