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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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Tonger Lez, it vould drive up the Mercury into (on C, chan whac lay perpendicillarly orerrir; lie
che Ball oF che Morrer Les, and more chan half AII cveen P and C. e Beil ddirtn erte veriareiba ot
is Cavicy; (which ic vould bare silled quice,
And Farcher ro makre our the larter pare ot chis
had the other Les been lons enough.) And chac Paradox: Ile rook three CHlals-LspeS, L, O, 6, ot
ehis Ball in the midale of the Morrer Les, cho ic such Trregular Strapes as che. Figille ausnins
held a great eishr ot chacheary Auid Mercury, did Mevech; and these by Lloles purpolelr made tor
nomore hinder the Mercurr trom riting ro irs due chem in a Cover oE Cort, he placed Obliquety
heighe, accordins co che ditterene Specisiek Cirarier wichin a Gla(S- Vessel, Ailled ivichi Wacer up 2OA B.
ot those vo Liquors Water and Mercurr, than if Then by chehele ofche Funnel Y, Hc senelr pou-
rhe Morrer Leg had been every wrhere ol the same red in Oyt of Turpemvine, rill ies upper Surtace
Dimensions wich its upper Oritice D: For the Great reached ro F F; Which Oil he tound did by its
quantier of Mercurr irtrich vas forcedup intoche
Ball, evas there in a g00d meature supporrod by che
Borrom and Sides ot il, and no more sravicated
Presture on the Suitace OF the Wacer, raise iE vip 1O
an equal heighe in all chethree Pives.
SC H O E TV M.
IF a Cylindrical, or ocherwise Reured Vesset,
hare b) a Lsole made in ils Cover or Lid, a Pipe
oF any lensch Fastened there, andthe Vessel by char ins fixperiment; erhich (cho not so accurare as
Pipe be hned wich Nater, 35 also che Pipe it selF:
TheBalloot chac Vesset doch sultain a Precture equat plidered.
eo chac ot a CBn oF. Water, Whole Bale ls ee
This Paradox Stevinus adds by vay oF Appen
dix to che last; buc che trays hC POLS 1O RX
Ceent iS Lruch, are noc such as Wil arsives
cu cn Metetore . Do aentcu ne FolW
came wichche Bonom ot ihe Vessel, and istreistit
chac oF che Vesset Ripe and all.
 b e o ere 10 be cbti.
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a oicel aite
peris t vot. 101 1ille