Observations on the ventilation of rooms; on the construction of chimneys; and on garden stoves / Principally collected [by R. Willan] from papers left by the late John Whitehurst.

  • Whitehurst, John, 1713-1788.
Date:
1794
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Observations on the ventilation of rooms; on the construction of chimneys; and on garden stoves / Principally collected [by R. Willan] from papers left by the late John Whitehurst. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ * ] OBSERVATIONS ON THE VENTILATION OF ROOMS, k CHAP. I. si View of the Properties of the Air-> upon which the Operation of Chimneys depends. H E fcience of hydroftatics, which explains the laws and properties of watery fluids, was brought to a conliderable degree of perfection by the celebra- ted Archimedes, more than two hundred years before the Chriftian era. On this fcience, the philofophers of later times have founded their admirable doCtrine of the prefiure of the air. Galileo, from analogical reafoning, firft fuggefted the idea, that air, though a light and inviiible fluid, mufl