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Lexicon Technicum: Or, An Universal English Dictionary Of Arts And Sciences, fol. -

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

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Lexicon Technicum: Or, An Universal English Dictionary Of Arts And Sciences, fol. - . Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/806933011:0407?run=74