Scientific Dialogues: Intended for the Instruction and Entertainment of Young People, Inwich the First Principles of Natural and Experimental Philosophy are Fully Explained. Vol. II, IV-VI.J. Johnson, 1809 |
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Page 173 - through the obedient wave, At each short breathing by his lip repell'd, With arms and legs according well, he makes, As humour leads, an easy winding path.
Page 86 - horizontal pipe, in any part of the side of an upright vessel below the surface of the fluid, is equal to twice the length of a perpendicular to the side of the vessel, drawn from the mouth of the pipe to a semicircle described upon the altitude of the
Page 121 - when immersed in water, loses as much of its weight as is equal to the weight of a bulk of water of the same magnitude.
Page 186 - and of itself the water flies All taste of living wight, as once it fled The lip of Tantalus.
Page 185 - in the circling floods refreshment craves, And pines with thirst amidst a sea of waves; And when the water to his lips applies, Back from his lips the treacherous water
Page 144 - got two masses, one of gold, and the other of silver, each equal in weight to the crown, and having filled a vessel very accurately with water,
Page vi - is formed of two Greek words, which signify water, and the science which considers the weight of bodies, But hydrostatics, as a branch of natural philosophy, treats of the nature, gravity, pressure, and motion of fluids in general; and of the
Page xii - others still smaller might be introduced : and when the vessel would contain no more small shot, a great quantity of sand might be shaken in, and, between the pores of these, water or other fluids would readily insinuate themselves.
Page 145 - and observed the quantity of water that flowed over: he then did the same with the gold, and found that a less quantity