 | Industrial arts - 1833 - 426 pages
...exquisite way inventible, yet by several trials and much charge, I have perfectly tried all these." 68. An admirable and most forcible way to drive up water...drawing or sucking it upwards, for that must be, as the philosophers calleth it, infra tphœram acliritalit, which is but at such a distance. But this way... | |
 | Luke Hebert - Industrial arts - 1835 - 938 pages
...description of a fre water-work, which is here transcribed. [Note. The original manuscript of this work, written in the year 1655, is now preserved in the...upwards, for that must be as the philosopher calleth it ¡nlra Kphavam acltvitatis, which is but at such a distance. But this way hath no bounder, if the vessel... | |
 | Charles Frederick Partington - Steam-engines - 1836 - 390 pages
...work. We shall content ourselves, therefore, with extracting that article from the noble author's MS. preserved in the British Museum. " An admirable and...drawing or sucking it upwards, for that must be as the philosophers call it, infra sphferam activitatis, which is but at such a distance. But this way hath... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner - Steam-engines - 1836 - 386 pages
...terms in the sixty-eighth invention in the work above named: — . " I have invented an admirable and forcible way to drive up water by fire;, not by drawing...sucking it upwards, for that must be, as the philosopher terms it, infra spseram activitatis, which is but at such a distance. But this way hath no bounder... | |
 | Elijah Galloway - Steam-engines - 1836 - 888 pages
...of which is preserved in the British Museum. The following is the Marquis's own description : — " An admirable and most forcible way to drive up water...fire, not by drawing or sucking it upwards, for that mint be, as the philosopher calls it, infra sphteram activitatis, which is but at such a distance.... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner - Steam-engines - 1836 - 368 pages
...terms in the sixty-eighth invention in {he work above named: — . "I have invented an admirable and forcible way to drive up water by fire; not by drawing or sucking it upwards, fopthat must be, as the philosopher terms it, infra spseram activitatis, which is but at such a distance.... | |
 | Science - 1837 - 516 pages
...appeared in France during the time that Worcester resided there. t [" No. LXVIII. (A Fire Waterwork.) — An admirable and most forcible way to drive up water...upwards, for that must be, as the philosopher calleth it, infra sphceram aclivitatiy, which is but at such a distance. But this way hath no bounder, if the vessels... | |
 | Hugo Reid - Steam-engines - 1838 - 234 pages
...the first, and, there is every reason to believe, the others, refer to a steam-engine : — " LXVI1I. An admirable and most forcible way to drive up water...— for that must be, as the philosopher calleth it, intra tphaeram activitatis, which is but at such a distance. But this way hath no bounder, if the vessels... | |
 | Law - 1838 - 508 pages
...of its recondensation. The Marquiss of Worcester mentions it .in his " Century of Inventions" as " an admirable and most forcible way to drive up water by fire." Sir Samuel Morland was acquainted with it as a moving force about 1685, and designates numerically... | |
 | James Ferguson - Astronomy - 1839 - 554 pages
...which terminated in this important discovery." The Marquis's account of his invention is as follows.— "An admirable and most forcible way to drive up water...sucking it upwards, for that must be as the philosopher callcth it, Infra Spheeram activitatis, which is but tfote 49. Vide Historical and Descriptive Account... | |
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An admirable and most forcible way to drive up water by fire, not by drawing or sucking it upwards, for that must be as the philosopher calleth it, infra spheeram activitatis, which is but at such a distance. But this way hath no bounder, if the vessels... 
