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# Title: Leibniz-Handschriften zur Mathematik LH 35, 14, 2
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40
Tractasys. 2. a ppendic api Z. Etstyu
Cinca chercuriam tubo contentum novum experimen
sum a Fabricio Grcastaferreo inventum est sit
canaliculus valde angustus sex patinos longus apertus
nunc, allinc clausus immuttater e ad 4 patus,
sel minus, sed probe purgatus a pulvere scorca et alius
taecibus invertatur Tubus sistet Mercurius nec descendet
ultra 4 palmos si vero immultat, ad 5 Patinos
tunc jam fortior ultra descendet, et supra spatium
clinquet quia scilicet tunc supetat rests entiam
subsitit ima pondere materiam subtilis materiae
senbendae et eduicendae. Hini si tubus latior non
sistit in 4 palinis, quin divisio facilior idem
ende
aveno quod aqua per spiras descendat intra tubum
dum aera sursum tindit explicurmus trode Elemer
et in diclogis porro sit Tubus pautum sucntiati
mernorii ullima balls relinquit fundum subi et acu
cidit. Sed mox motu accelerato restituitur; si non
sit arobe purgatus non sistit, quin aer per rimas
a scoria apertas transit.
si prercurio super.
fundatur aqua, quae occupet patium ante ab
aere occupalum, et invertatu tribus ust supra
de (endit omnino mercumus et sarsum extindit agua-
fatiohucus praeclari experimenti, quia aerter
tatum connressus premit extremur litibum basis men-
curuus ut en in quexum torne ut fuse in diulojus.
quid mirco ergo si per medium dium o eat. at aqua
quippe non cnressa non tendit versus extremitates
sed longe facilius per medium simum ascendit
aqua mercurius sit in Teribo inverso
iubo statim aqua descendit et aera sursu ex
tradit, quia aeris soressio in basin aquae superiore
quexitatem non induert idem de sed ut india-
logis deanon pravi geavitatem, unde extinsio
per mediu fucilior. Idem de aliis liquo
ribu excepto solo gioo si missus metcirius
at
pplntmos mittati
in eur filum ferreri gossypio instructum quas
ad instar Emboli, ubi denve retrahibur filum
ne detr vacun pulle aerg particulae intra
gossgnium latentes eductae tendunt et dila
danti ad oculuum id quibus deunde filudepsum ha-
otur du illae se reducuni sugndu expermuentu
eu praeterassignatum rad nulla.
promore
vulgaris experimenti admovens digtu, inter
invertendum e nmmerias nnmercurium vase suppo
sito mercurus descendit, et extat supia patmos
41 circito, pro prensura prioni: Jam si admodo
de3 ligito magno impelutribum invertas
impetu nec suspensus
in cralogis etiam ex eo probabunus
n
uit dcrsumm
mercurium ab aere non sustineri, quin pondus mer.
manet.
curii, sculitura sustmente fistutari vitrear
astha Y eorum responsive  rejecta qui sibi per
sraserant t min in Tubi latra gravitare, venit
qno in manyneas aureum doctissimi amiani
Michelini opusculum de flumum directive
bi adem pprorsus adstruit de aquis alveo seu vase
tentis ienum alue latra seu parictes erecti sint
erpendiculariter, et probe lergali, nulla ant
modica vis ponderis in eos gravitat modica sane
Nam gravitao infundum ea ad gravitaveen la bu
une ut gravitas superfieres ad linea. si me
Ago non et Mercroim sustinere impjistmendo superfinie
enfundti inferioris mercurit vee content; Ergo
qui pistuta erectam dineo vilinu pondentire