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

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

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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/806933011:0411?run=74