 | 1789 - 398 pages
...have done, if the Merc, were higher, and fo, on the contrary, if the Merc, flood at fair, and fall to changeable, it prefages foul "Weather, though not...indicates the Weather, as the Motion of it up and down : Wherefore, in order to pafs a rig-ht Judgment of •what Weather is to be expefted, we ought to know... | |
 | John Imison - 1796 - 476 pages
...though not fo much of it as if it funk lower. From thefe obfervations it appears, that it is not fa much the height of the mercury in the tube that indicates the weather, as the motion of it up and down : wherefore, in order to pafs a right judgment of what \veather is to be expefted, we ought to know... | |
 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1797 - 430 pages
...obfervations of Mr Patrick, on which Mr Rowning makes the following remarks. " From thefe obfirvations it appears, That it is not fo much the height of the...indicates the weather, as the motion of it up and down: wherefore, in order to pafs a right judgment of what weather is to be expected, we ought to know whether... | |
 | Thomas Hodson - Education - 1802 - 556 pages
...lower. Upon thefe rules of Mr. Patrick, Mr. Rt-iuni-ng remarks, that it is not fo much the abfolute height of the mercury in the tube that indicates the weather, as its motion up and down; therefore, to pafs a right judgment of what weather is to be expefted, we ought... | |
 | Thomas Hodson - Arithmetic - 1806 - 488 pages
...funk lower. Upon thefe rules of Mr. Patrick, Mr. Rmaning remarks, that it is not fo much the abfolute height of the mercury in the tube that indicates the weather, as its motion up and down ; therefore, to pafs a right judgment of what weather is to be expected, we... | |
 | 1789 - 766 pages
...twelve peribns, of whom two hundred and ten were volunteers. The number of convidls w.is five From tbefe obfervations it appears, that it is not fo much the height of the quickfilver in the tube, that indicates the weather, as the motion of it up "and down ; and, therefore,... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - Natural history - 1821 - 448 pages
...not so much of it as if it had sunk lower. From these observations it appears, that it is not so mucb the height of the mercury in the tube that indicates the weather, as the motion of it up and down: therefore, in order to form a right judgment of what weather may be expected, we ought to know, whether... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - Marine insurance - 1822 - 1008 pages
...it had sunk down lower. From these observations, says Mr. Rowenge (Natural Philosophy), it is not so much the height of the mercury in the tube, that indicates the weather, as the motion of it up and down ; wherefore, to pass a right judgment of what weather is to be expected, we ought to know whether the... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1843 - 914 pages
...the best observations that have been made on the barometer, it appears, however, that it is not so much the height of the mercury in the tube that indicates the weather, as the motion of it up and down ; wherefore, in order to know whether the mercury is actually rising or falling, the following rules... | |
 | Thomas Dick - Philosophy and religion - 1869 - 664 pages
...as rain in all other points of the Compass. — From these observations it appears that it is not so much the height of the mercury in the tube that indicates the weather as its motion upwards or downwards. In the torrid zone the mercury seldom either rises or falls so much... | |
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That it is not fo much the height of the mercury in the tube that indicates the weather, as the motion of it up and down: wherefore... 
