| Roger Cotes - Air - 1747 - 356 pages
...miles long. If anyone hasadefire to make this calculation after me, he may proceed upon thefe grounds. That the weight of a column of air reaching to the top of the atmofphere, is moft commonly equal to a column of water having the fame bafis, and the altitude of 34 feet ; that... | |
| Alexander Adam - 1794 - 748 pages
...feet high is of equal weight with 4 column of water of the fame breadth, and but one foot high. But a column of air reaching to the top of the atmofphere is of equal weight with a column of water about 33 feet high; for that is the greateft height that a pump,... | |
| Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 852 pages
...whole height of the atmosphere might be ascertained without difficulty. It has been well established, that the weight of a column of air reaching to the top of the atmosphere, is equal to the weight of the mercury contained in the barometer, and counterbalancing... | |
| Edinburgh encyclopaedia - 1830 - 830 pages
...Refraction of the atmosphere. 85 feet above the general level of the surrounding fluid, and therefore the weight of a column of air reaching to the top of the atmosphere, is equal to the weight of a column of water, of the same base, with the altitude of 34... | |
| John Brown - 1866 - 602 pages
...atmosphere. We move about, through, and under it, without being sensible of its having any weight. And yet hildren of men.' Ezek. mi- 15-17 : 'In the day when he w atmosphere is equal to the weight of a column of water at the temperature of 60 deg., the base of which... | |
| William Allen Miller - Chemistry, Inorganic - 1871 - 332 pages
...o° C. But at the top of a mountain of a little more than 5-5 kilometres or nearly 3-4 miles high, the weight of a column of air reaching to the top of the atmosphere would only be able to balance a column of mercury of half this height, or 380 mm. And a... | |
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