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

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1. N. B. This Experimene may most tcadily and
2. easily be tricd (25 L have otten done my selF) wich
3. Mercury. IF rou cake a Mender Ola(S Tube, OF
4. Pipe oFabour soF an lnch Bores or rather lels, arid
5. dippins che lover end into a Vessel ol Mercury,
6. rou chen Aop chie uxper end rich jour Finger: By
7. ertrich means zou imay kecp halt an Incli, more or
8. less, oF thac Ponderous Fluid suspended in che Pipe:
9. And then il Keepine vour Pinger thus, vou im-
10. merse the Tube into a lone Ola(s oF Wacer, eill che
11. lirele Column OF Mercury De more chan 13 Or 14
12. cimes its lensch under Wacer, rou Will tind on re-
13. movine jour Finger, chac chie Mercury viil be
14. Kepe suspended in che Tube, by che Pressure oF the
15. Wacer upvards; bur chac it vou raise che Fube
16. ux buc a vers licele abore che former Scation, the
17. Mercury will immediarely run out: Whereas, il
18. betore rou had remored zour Firigee trom che
19. Top, vou had sunk che Pipe (0 lor, 25 thac the
20. Mercury ivere 12 or 14 Triches, C9c. beloir the
21. Surface of the WVater; thac then the Mereurr
22. vould be violenty forced up, and make several
23. Ascents and Delcenis in che Tube, rill by degrees
24. ic had sained irs proper Starion in ic, accordins re
25. che Laws oF Specitick Grariry.
26. Indeed chis Experiment vill nor be oF a very lon8
27. conrinuance, because the WVacet ill by desiees
28. vet up beciveen theMercurr, and the sides ot che
29. Tubes but ic will last a fero Minutes, and longer
30. it che Tube be verr Pender, which is rime enough
31. 20 Patistre ans orie of che crurh ot chis Paradox.
32. Fromhence may the adhesion of the cuo polisted
33. Marbles cogerter, when che upper is suspended,
34. and a great weiehe huns co che latter, Dc casilY ac.
35. counced For. For lince the Armosphere presses Or
36. Praritates vith ils Wvhole eighe ou the under Sur-
37. tace and Sides ot che lorver Marble, bur cannor do
38. (0 ac all on iis upper Surtace, wtrich is closely coni-
39. tiguous co che upper and suspended Marble, id
40. must necds kecp elie Stone buored ux or pendu-
41. lous, eill such eime as cirher che Air insinuare ic Lel
42. in beteen the Stones, or thac a eighe be affixed
43. eo the lorer Stonc, Which excecds che weigheof 2
44. Pillar oF Air, Wrhole Diamerer is thaE OF Che Nar-
45. ble, and ics heiphe reachins ro che TOp OF the AF
46. mosphere: And chacchis is che realon ot their co-
47. hesion, is plain; because when cher are chus su
48. spended, and do adhere ro cach orher, in thc RC
49. ceirer ot che Air Pump, on a very ser Pumping
50. OE the Air Out OF the Receirer, chey will immedi-
51. arelr disjorn and Fall asunder.
52. thar che Malhematical Reduet Mas alo DC Pled
53. Sed in tis war roo, he has che Follovins MOrE AC.
54. coune oe thparostacietis, dravn ux trom Dr. Walli
55. cind lome ocher Auctiors.
56. (Sectis. 1.) beciher not pressed ac all, or else pres.
57. sed equally in ereer pare, as will be che Cale, al.
58. lowins che Pressure ot che Rir, Which is an Flomo-
59. geneal Boar Wich respec EtarIE, and presses
60. equallu in all the Paris oF (0lmall a Surtace. Nou
61. since che Parts of che Fluid belor, are all acted
62. upon by Gravitation, cher cannor ascend and so e.
63. lerace any pare ot che Surtace AB; nor can iie
64. Fluid subside in one part, and so be eleraced in a-
65. nocher, beins che Presture against the Bortom is e.
66. anothers Subsidence, supposine the Fluid dirided
67. into any Number ot equal COIMMMIS. Eence I
68. Follons, Fromche contrarr Prerture of chele equal
69. Columns ac the Borrom oF the Vessel, rhac chere
70. can beno Morion; chac is, che Surtace will remain
71. eren without any manner of Disturbance. D. F. D.
72. Sec Dr. Walliss Mecha. Prop. 8. CaP. 2. de decensu
73. gravium.
74. Plaim, asit ias suppored in che foregoins Proposiri-
75. Face unequal, ir will again secores ies formet
76. Stace.
77. We Mall nor ac present consider, a5 chac che PartSOL
78. che Fluic mas hapren 10 berenactoto, .
79. Ferche Vesset AILB, BE fil d wich Water, or ani
80. other fluid, nhose Surface me suppose to be even:
81. (mhich, tho in reality it will not be a Plain, bui
82. part of ibe Surface os a Sphere, concentrieat rith
83. the Farrh; yer we pall al alone consider it asa
84. Plain, or as differins insensibly from one:) I say
85. if this Surface be supposed even et first, nil still
86. remainso.1
87. Irhich is chus demionstrared.
88. Tet rtie even Surtace A B oF ihe Vestet AKTB,
89. rery Wwhere equal, and consequeney hinders one
90. Tnus taF vene this Fxcellent Centleman: BuI
91. BlFit Ihe Fluid De puE OuE OF chis Scare by some
92. externatetee, lo chatone part oF itaS D (Fig. 1.
93. be elerarell abore the rest; do bue remore ctie
94. totce, and ic ill rerurn co is Former Hlorizontal
95. Position, Pas uxon che ACCOuHE OF ies Fluidirs
96. chac are belo itlett, and alto becausethe subjectea
97. Parr C beris moreprest chen che ortier Parrs oF che
98. Surtace A B, this Pressure wili be continued corhe
99. Botrom ot the Vesel, Wvhere by reason oF che re
100. Sittance made Bs the Borrom, it will be communi-
101. caredto choll Lats chatare less prest, Forcingthem
102. to ascend (0 LOne rill che Equilibrium be 2gain re-
103. Aored; i. c. Till H B become even and parallel 10
104. the FTorizon. So chac altho che Surtace benOT a
105. the Parrs abore HW adwn into MOIC PtaceS
106. on; vec il che force be remored, thac made its Sur-
107. Theremas be lome Accidental Variarions which

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