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Paternoster Row.
The Aneroid Barometer (Vol. iv., p. 295.).
—The intended signification of this name, "aneroid," can of course be only determined by the person who conferred it; upon any less direct authority the derivation quoted from Mr. Dent's description can scarcely be received. The meaning of νηρὸς is moist, rather than fluid; but even admitting the latter signification, then the last syllable ought surely to be referred, not to εἰδος, but to its root εἰδω (scio); perceivable without fluid being a much better characteristic than a form without fluid.
But taking into consideration the peculiar construction of this sort of barometer, its flexible diaphragm supported from within against the pressure of the atmosphere, may not its name have been derived from ἀνὰ (adversus), ἀὴρ (aer), and οἶδος (tumor)?
A. E. B.
Miscellaneous.
NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC.
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