Pantologia. A new (cabinet) cyclopædia, by J.M. Good, O. Gregory, and N. Bosworth assisted by other gentlemen of eminence, Volume 21813 |
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... observed by the bye , is the reason why a water barometer cannot succeed . This baro- meter is here represented in fig . 2. where CD is the vessel , in which is united the up- per or small water tube AC , with the lower or mercurial one ...
... observed by the bye , is the reason why a water barometer cannot succeed . This baro- meter is here represented in fig . 2. where CD is the vessel , in which is united the up- per or small water tube AC , with the lower or mercurial one ...
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... observations on the changes of atmospheric pressure : the slightest breeze causes it to rise or fall , and it is ... observed and measured . Except , therefore , for mere chamber amuse- ment ( in which case the barometer just de ...
... observations on the changes of atmospheric pressure : the slightest breeze causes it to rise or fall , and it is ... observed and measured . Except , therefore , for mere chamber amuse- ment ( in which case the barometer just de ...
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... observation like an astronomical instrument . Tralles of Berne has judiciously observed , that all baro . meters are liable to be broken when the tube is fixed to the scale which belongs to it . In Humbolt's barometer the tube is ...
... observation like an astronomical instrument . Tralles of Berne has judiciously observed , that all baro . meters are liable to be broken when the tube is fixed to the scale which belongs to it . In Humbolt's barometer the tube is ...
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... observations and experience lead us still nearer to precision . Mr. Boyle ob- serves , that the phenomena of the ... observation is made , you place in ge a small cushion , of covering , held by two screws vv , which pre- vent the escape ...
... observations and experience lead us still nearer to precision . Mr. Boyle ob- serves , that the phenomena of the ... observation is made , you place in ge a small cushion , of covering , held by two screws vv , which pre- vent the escape ...
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... observe the words engraven on the plates , as the mercury's rising and falling ; though in general it will agree ... observation is to be made with such a tube , it ought to be first shaken ; for sometimes the mercury will not vary of ...
... observe the words engraven on the plates , as the mercury's rising and falling ; though in general it will agree ... observation is to be made with such a tube , it ought to be first shaken ; for sometimes the mercury will not vary of ...
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