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# Title: Lexicon Technicum: Or, An Universal English Dictionary Of Arts And Sciences (shelfmarks Leibn. Marg. 71; ZEN Leibn. Marg. 71)
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ix do l0, hC Watex in the simaII TuO _ _ M a Take a Aender Ola(S. PIpC OF An even BOEN, CuIn-
lareer senech than che correlpondins Ccum ot ed up ac one end like chis in chefisure; dip chis
Dil Cwhole Diameter ls CGuaBThe Oritice OF thaE Tube (open ac borh ends) into Oil os Furpenrine,
Tube, and which kecps ic ux by equi-ponderarins rill che Liquor be risen ux to rro or chree Inches
wich ic) doch require: Bur ehen it must behearier
in che loneer Les, whole upper Oritice chen Aop
than ie, and (0 woule sintc donon, and drire the rich vourtinger; and chen remore the Tubeinto
SUbjaCenE WVacer away, eo make room FOr iis de-
TCenE: Wheretore no Cylinder OE Wacer in any
a Clals of Wacer, and hold ie lo chacthe Surtace
ot the Oil in the longer Les of the Pipe, be bur a
Tube, can be hipher chan an equal Cxlinder ot very licele hipher chan chac oF che Watet: And
Oit chac bears or buors ic ux; and chis beins the
chien if rou tasse avay rour Finser chat Aopr che
case ich chem aIl, cher must be all ot thelame Pipe, vou will sec cheOil will kecpirsctation, and
heighe: chacis, the Wacer ill rise as high in noc ac all, or ac least bur rery litele, rile or Fall.
one Tube as in another, be cheir Bores nerer (0 Bur il rou sink che Tube lorver, che Oil vill rile,
difterent; and che Reason is, becaule cach oncis il vou raile che Tube higher, the Oil vill run oue
born up by a correspondins Column or Cplinder oF ar the lorver end: From whence it appears, Thac
Oil, wrhose Diamerer is che lame ich thar oF the oF aIl the Wacer in the Ola(S, no more pressed on
Oritice oE che FTube.
che Oritice of the Pipe chan a Cplinder equal eo it
in Diamerer, and in leneth equal ro che Distance
Between that Oritice ot the Pipe, and the FOp OF
che WVacer; (25 vou mar allo casils sind if vou
makce a Syphon, whole Morrer Leg Mail be lone
Surface parallet to the PTorizon, the direct Prelture enoush eo contain such a C vlinder oF Water as will
counerpose che Oil in che longer.) For when by
raitins up che Pipe, rou Morren chat C plinder, che
alnoo VI.
I a Oody be placed under Water, with ils uxpermost
mhich it sustains, is no more than that of a Column
of Vater, havine the FTorizental Superficies of the
both ends, the Pressure of the Water i5 tobe esti- Tube.
mated by the meicht of a Pillar. of WVater, rhose
Base is equat to the lover Orifice of the Pipe, and radox will hold, wrhracerer bethe Fisure oF che
its Feisht equal to a Perpendicular reachins from Morrer Les ot the Tube, whether openine broac
thenco to thc Top of the Water; tho the Pipe be
much enclined any may, or tho it be never so itre-
salate saped; and much brdadt n sonte othe
Body for its Base, and the Perpendicular Depth of Oil villrun our: A5 When by sintins it lover
the Water for its Fseisbe. And is the Water that and so lenschenins che Cylinder oF Water, theoi
leans on the Body be contained in Pipes open, at will be Forced up hisher inco the longer Les oF che
Places vism  io rtes
e a Tunnel by Degrees, or Whecher ic have a
Spherical or otherwise Aigured Carier ot considera-
ble Dimensions, in chemidale oFic.
For our Noble Auchor Found, br providins 2
Syphon os che Figure annexed, and pourine in
Vou will sind doD) L. XPCHMHEME, CaL LIS Ld.
Nercury rill it reached ux to che BOrom OF che
Globular part of rhie MOrEeF LeB, and eo an equat
heighe in the longer Les oF theSyphon; he found,
Cay, chacif he poured Wacer in acthe Top ofche
longer