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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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the Oil in ehe longer Les, PAHHIS I allo in che p which BY PItinE On VOuF ZinSCF EO FHC upPer Ori
Came Proporrion. The realon oF whichis obrious fice, mas belhere Caus luended, 25 etie WW’ acer
trom wrtiar hach been Caid in che Former Para-
doxes.
Our Auchor Found also, thac when he uled 
Srphon of che Figure annexed, the WV acer mouid art keep the parcel ot Oil suspended Berween tuvo
Was WoC. LCcp It 10, ana chen immexte M
Tube in a Class oF Nater 3 Or 4 Inches beneathirs
Surtace, and rou ri l fnd on che remoral ot jour
licele Columns oF Wacer The Reason oE wrtrict,
is sufficienty accounicable From many chings alrea-
dy delivered.
Finger, chac che Warer Willrise ux intoche Tube.
PAR ADOX X
That ihe Cause of the ascension os Water in Srphons
and its flomine thro them, may be explicnted mith.
out havins recourse 1o Nacures abhorrence es 
Vacuum.
Provide L preter laree Cxlindrical OtasS. Fube
Vetel, OF abOUE 18 IncheS, OE 2 FOOE IOnZ, 25
A BC D; provide also a Syphon OF ENO LCBSRF
and IE C, vich a hollon Pipe, 25 B B, openins
Erst press che Oil Horizonally From P rO M, then inco or communicarins wich them; to cach oF chese
donnivards From M c0 NV, and ac last (by sinkring no Less oE che Sypton (one ot wrhich muct be
che Tube RilI lorer) uprards Erom NV P: From longer chan che orher:) Tic wich a Sirins a Tube
Wohence ic appears, chac Wacer presses against any
OF Cta(s L and II, sealed ac the BOrtOM. POUT
Body placed in ic aIl manner ot ays, and chac  chen in Water aE C, and let ic run ouc ac P and FI,
proxorionabis coche depth oF che Body in ic.
EAR ADOX IX.
That mhatever hach been said os Positive Levity, a
Parcet of dil, lighter than Water, may be kept in
that Liquor vithout ascendins in it.
This may very casily be experimented by ca
king only a linaHI Clals Tube, and immertins ir an
Inch or ero under Warer, Kop che upper Oritice
eiII ie hach Ailled che Fubes hanging ac che ends OF
cheLess oF che Syphon, (o tar, chac rhe end Ot
cach Les be a lirrle beneath che Surtace ot chc
NVacer.
This done, and che Pipe and Syphon tastened
in ies erue crect Posirion, il vou AII che Vesse
ABC D wrich OYI OF Turpemtine, eill ic reach
hisher chan che FOD OF che Syphon KE, SoppinS in
the meantime, it ron please, the upper Oritice oE
the Pipe E K, Wvich pour Finger.
Atter chis, vou will find ehe Oil co prels (0 on
the Wacer in che Tubes Land HI, as rO Force ic ux
vich che Pulp ot rour Finger, and chen a Column inco che L egs oF the Syphon, as hiph 25 IE; and
oF Wacer oF an Tnch orro in lenech, will remain
suspended in the Fube: Kcep it lo, and nexe dip
che Came Tube inco a Vessel oF Oil oE Lurpenrine.
and remorins vour Finger, 25 much Oil oF Lur-
penrine a5 rou pease, will arise inco che Fube;
chac on che remorins ol rour Finger tromthe Tor
E, che Wacer Wvill begin co run our oF che uPPeF
Tube I, intoche lorver one FI, 25 in or chro 2 com-
mon drotom, ot Ctare.
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