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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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Ee ordered a Jin er Lacon Vessel ro bemace oF
che adjornins Shape, which hact a 100se BOreom, Ltus Parador, in che Memoirs Machematique C
MII. Varisnon.
de Phosique; A. D. 189L. P. L L. 1o Co latett 6)
IFthere bC rwO LdDeS Ox Vessels, havinq che
same Fseighes and Bales, boch Ailled wicti Water
buconc ot themmade (o caperins upvards, chat it
Mail contain bur 20 Ounces ot Water; Whereas
che orher holds 200; the Bocoms ol chiese rvo
Tubes Mall sustain au equal Pressure oF Water, vi
each ot chem thac ot rhe Weishe oF 200 Ounces
the Ouanriry ot rhe Liquid concained in the grea
tex Tubes
This is undoubred Fact, and agreedupon by allo
cobe true, a5 long a5 che contained Liguor conri
nues Fluid; bur if ic Mould Preere, than it rill by
no meanshold, che lester Ouanriey ot Icc (to be lure)
beins much liglirer chan the greater.
The Reason cheretore ot chis surprisne Phaeno-
menon, scems e0 depend much on the Nature OE
Fluidiey; and accordinsly, Mr. Varignon espoules
che Opinion of rhose wrho alerr, Thacthe 20 Oun
ces oF Water in the Papering, or orhieevise une-
qually formd Tube, as long as the Water conri
nuesliquid, do press and essectively charge rhe Bor
tom of che Vessel, as muctras 200 unces would de
in a uniform Cxlindrical Tutre at etia Cama Ba(C
and Alticucle.
help to lulcain ehe Weighe, anel charche Borrom aloné
Mr. arisnon chinksche Maccer easily Colvable in
ene forpnex ray, chus:
Ochers Car, che Rrained Sides oF etie unequat
Tube, by hindering the risins OE che Wacer, de
is noc charsed with che Whole Prelture, buta 900d
Parc oficis calen oAby che Sides
CD, made OF a AAL PICCE OF HOCC
solt piece os Bladder, and greased on the Wver side
near the Fdses, charlo leanins ontheRim oF Wo0a
CFI, contisuous cveri wrhere co che inside ol che
Laton, it miste casily be lifred oH From il, and
ver lic so close upon ic at ocherrimes, charthe W
ter Mould nor per beccen them. Po che midate
OEthe loose Borom was fasteried a lone A11 B, LMa
came ux phro che Bodr oF chic Pipe AB.
The Instrument chus siced, There Was Wacer
eoure d is et R, Which pressed asaCCHC LaBC BO-
tom C D, and Kepe ic s0 righe donn, MaCHOML-
FeF FaN Our. WVhen che Vessel and Pipe vere Bort
filled wich Wacer, che upper end of cheScrins R l,
uas fastened to the Beam of a 800d pair oF Scales,
and then as much Weishe wvas pur into the oppo-
sre Scale, a5 dia HIIC uP CHC TAHC BOLIOMI L D, ITOIM
cheRim GFI, and (o ler out che Wacee; and chis
WeishHe found ro berery considerably more chan
har vould have serredro lite up as much WVaree
a5 thac Vessel did contain, had ic been in an open
onc et the common Strape: Buche neither cells us
the Mearure oF the Vesset, ihe Lleighr oF the Tube,
d viet
Veheltoc do tituee.
nox the Weighe Which ras required co raise che
Borrom; Which it he had done, crvere very casie e0
 a summmmis
Ihe TabE BACFFTR F DB, tavins ilS BOC-
EOm PaTE DK FTF, much larger chan ies upper
dhanke BC FD; L Cap, hach ieo Borcom B Hl dc
have calculared the Ouantier and Weighe oF a C0.
lumn of NVarer, Which Monld hare had the Borrom
Cor ics Bale, and che unired lenpch oC Zube anet