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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: A TABLE OF THE RAREFACTION OF THE AIR AB CD £100 29- 29|lilOf 19 101215f 14 14I320| 9 9rl422f 7- 7T7j-524I 5(5 c?4624£ D 4I17254 OS i4!O26J7 013j 3ff9 1026|- d13|2JJ 3"1287i1f2ff147)1. 2 "f 871 8? 1 6516 18 14; 'in2028 lj$j.2428| ii. 'Ifr2828§ i Ittt 3228| 4oillA The number of equal spaces at the top of the tube that contained the same parcel of air. B The height of the mercurial cylinder that, together with the spring of the included air, counterbalanced the pressure of the atmosphere. C The pressure of the atmosphere. D The complement of B to C exhibiting the pressure sustained by the included air. E What that pressure should be according to the hypothesis." would be quite impossible for me, in the time which remains, to attempt to go over, however superficially, the whole ground of Boyle's work, although there is much in it of special interest at the present 'time, as, for example, his papers on the Saltness of the Sea, and the Nature of the Sea's Bottom; and his Essay of the Intestine Motions of the Particles of Quiescent Solids wherein the absolute Rest of Bodies is called in question. He was perhaps the earliest todraw attention to the desirability of studying the forms of crystals, and his paper on the Figures of Salts contains many curious observations ; in his Experiments about the Superficial Figures of Fluids, especially of Liquors contiguous to other Liquors, he breaks ground which has taxed the energies of our greatest mathematicians. His Treatise on Cold abounds with striking and original experiments: thus he demonstrates the expansive power of freezing water by bursting a gun- barrel filled with water and securely plugged, by placing it in a mixture of snow and salt, a freezing mixture which he himself brought into use in England. His E...
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