 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - Science - 1749 - 878 pages
...Surface of the Water, which Threads perform the Office of Diagonals : For that while the Infiniment finks more or lefs by the Alteration of the Gravity...where the Surface of the Water cuts the Thread, is form'da fmall Bubble, which Bubble afcends up the Thread, while the 5 of the common Barofcope afcends.... | |
 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1797 - 430 pages
...infiniment finks more or lefs by the attraction of the gravity of the air, there where the furface of the water cuts the thread, is formed a fmall bubble; which bubble afcends up the thread, as the mercury in the common barometer afcends." The dimenfions of this infiniment given there arc,... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1813 - 764 pages
...diagonals : for while the instrument sinks more or less by an alteration in the gravity of the air, where the surface of the water cuts the thread is formed a small bubble, which ascends up the Uucad while the mercury of the common baroscope ascends, and vice... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Perthensis - 1816 - 750 pages
...while the infiniment finks more or Itfs by an alteration in the gravity of the air, where the furface of the water cuts the thread is formed a fmall bubble, which afcends up the thread while the mercury <,f the common baro'-'°pe afcends, and vice verfa. It appears... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1816 - 740 pages
...while the inftrumcnt links more or lei's by an alteration in the gravity of the air, where the furface of the water cuts the thread is formed a fmall bubble, which afcends up the thread while the mercury < f the common baro:>opc afcends, and vice verfa. It appears... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 1839 - 906 pages
...surface of the water, which perform the office of diagonals : for while the inthe graiity of the air, where 'the surface of the water cuts the thread is formed a small bubble, which ascends up the thread while lliu mercury of the common baroscope ascends, and vice... | |
 | Eric Gray Forbes, Lesley Murdin, Frances Wilmoth - Science - 2001 - 1114 pages
...Water, which Threads perform the Office of Diagonals: For that while the Instrument sinks more or less by the Alteration of the Gravity of the Air, there...where the Surface of the Water cuts the Thread, is form'da small Bubble which Bubble ascends up the Thread while the 9 of the common Baroscope ascends.... | |
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Itfs by an alteration in the gravity of the air, where the furface of the water cuts the thread is formed a fmall bubble, which afcends up the thread while the mercury <,f the common baro'-'°pe afcends, and vice verfa. 