HYDROSTATICKS.
16th Day. That Fluids gravitate in proprio loco, the upper Parts continually pressing upon the lower: That this Pressure is not only propagated Downwards, but even Upwards, and Sideways, according to all possible Directions; That a lighter Fluid may gravitate upon a heavier, and an heavier upon a lighter; That a Fluid may sustain a Body heavier in Specie than it self, and even raise it up; That a Fluid may detain a Body lighter in Specie than it self, and even depress it. A general Experiment to prove, that a competent Pressure of a Fluid may produce the remarkable Phænomena of the Torricellian Tube, the Pump, Syringe, Syphon, polished Plates, and other Effects of the like Nature.
17th—That Fluids press according to their perpendicular Altitudes, whatever be their Quantities, or however the containing Vessels be figured. The exact Estimate of all manner of Pressures. That the Velocity and Quantity of Fluids running out at a given Hole, is in the subduplicate Proportion of their perpendicular Altitudes. Several Sorts of Pumps. Of the sinking and floating of Bodies immers'd in Fluids; their relative Gravities and Levities; their Situations and Positions. The Phænomena of Glass Bubbles and Images accounted for.
18th—An Instrument to find out the Specifick Gravity of all Liquors. The Hydrostatical Balance explain'd, with the Methods of determining the Specifick Gravities of all Sorts of Bodies, whether Solid or Fluid, thereby. The Praxis of the Hydrostatical Balance, whereby the Specifick Gravities of several particular Bodies are actually found out. Some Account of the various Uses of such Enquiries.
PNEUMATICKS illustrated by Experiments for the most part Tubular, being such as were wont to be made before the Air-Pump was invented.
19th Day. The several Phænomena of the Torricellian Experiment exhibited and explained. Other Experiments of the like Nature, with Fluids variously combin'd. Several Sorts of Barometers, Thermometers, and Hygroscopes. The Pressure of the Air shewn by Experiment to be different at different Altitudes from the Surface of the Earth.
20th—The Density and Spring of the Air proved by several ways to be as the Force which compresses it, and reciprocally as the Spaces into which it is compress'd. From hence an Enquiry is made into the Limits and State of the Atmosphere.
21st—The Effects of the Weight and Spring of the Air in Syringes, Pumps, Siphons, polished Plates, Cupping-Glasses, Suction: Respiration explained by artificial Lungs; That the Air may be so disorder'd by a violent Impulse, as to require Time to recover its Strength and Elasticity again.
The more known Properties of the Air established by the Air-Pump, and other Engines.
22d Day. The Air-Pump; the Instruments for Condensing and Transferring of Air; their Fabrick, Operation, and Gages explained.
23d—A Parcel of Air weighed in the Balance; its Specifick Gravity to that of Water determined thereby; an artificial Storm, shewing that high Winds may make the Barometer sink much and suddenly.
24th—The Weight, Pressure, and Spring of the Air prov'd several ways; by the Sense of Feeling; by breaking Glass Vials; the Phænomena of Bladders, Glass-bubbles, Fountains; the Gardiner's Watering-Pot; the Diving-Bell, &c.
25th—The Torricellian Tube in Vacuo; Quicksilver raised to the usual Height of the Weather-Glass, by the bare Spring of a little included Air; Otto Gerick's Hemispheres; and that dense Air has the same Advantage over common Air, as that has over a Vacuum.
The Ebullition of Liquors in Vacuo; the Quantity of Air contain'd in them; the Sustentation of Fumes and Vapours; the Descent of Bodies in Vacuo.
The more hidden Properties of the Air consider'd by the help of the like Engines.
26th Day. The Influence of the Air examin'd as to the Causes of Magnetism; the Elasticity of Springs; the Cohæsion of the Parts of Matter; the Sphericity of the Drops of Fluids; the Ascent of Liquors in capillary Tubes, and between Glass-Planes in the Curve of the Hyperbola, both by the Attractive and Repulsive Power of the Glass.
27th—The Influence of the Air, as to Sounds, Fire, and Flame; the Consumption of Fuel; the firing of Gunpowder; the Effects of rarified, condensed, and burnt Air upon the Life of Animals.
28th—A Piece of Phosphorus in Vacuo; new Experiments concerning the Mercurial Phosphori; Experiments concerning the Electricity of Bodies.
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