The History of the Works of the Learned ..., Том 6J. Robinson, 1739 Containing impartial accounts and accurate abstracts of the most valuable books published in Great Britain and foreign parts ... |
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... Experiments , according to the Division he himself has made of it , confifts of four Parts . In the first are confidered folid Bodies and their Properties : In the fecond , Water and watry Fluids : In the third , the elaftick Fluid of ...
... Experiments , according to the Division he himself has made of it , confifts of four Parts . In the first are confidered folid Bodies and their Properties : In the fecond , Water and watry Fluids : In the third , the elaftick Fluid of ...
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... Experiments , the only fure Foundation " whereon to build a rational Philofophy , bufied " themselves in framing Hypotheses for the Soluti- " on of natural Appearances ; which , as they were " Creatures of the Brain , without any ...
... Experiments , the only fure Foundation " whereon to build a rational Philofophy , bufied " themselves in framing Hypotheses for the Soluti- " on of natural Appearances ; which , as they were " Creatures of the Brain , without any ...
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... Experiments : " For if two polifhed Plates " of Brafs be laid one upon another , having their " contiguous Sides fmeared with Oil , they will co- " here in vacuo , and with fuch Firmness , that when they are fufpended , the Force of ...
... Experiments : " For if two polifhed Plates " of Brafs be laid one upon another , having their " contiguous Sides fmeared with Oil , they will co- " here in vacuo , and with fuch Firmness , that when they are fufpended , the Force of ...
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... Experiments whereby our Author evinces this Power of Attraction in Bodies . For Inftance , the Rife of Fluids between two po- Jifhed Plates of Glafs , when , being fet parallel , and at very fmall Diftances from one another , their ...
... Experiments whereby our Author evinces this Power of Attraction in Bodies . For Inftance , the Rife of Fluids between two po- Jifhed Plates of Glafs , when , being fet parallel , and at very fmall Diftances from one another , their ...
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... Experiment , to the fame Purpose as the foregoing , defcribed by our Author , is with Glafs Plates , which , instead of being fet parallel to one another , are made to meet at one of their Ends , and kept at a little Distance at the ...
... Experiment , to the fame Purpose as the foregoing , defcribed by our Author , is with Glafs Plates , which , instead of being fet parallel to one another , are made to meet at one of their Ends , and kept at a little Distance at the ...
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