A course of lectures for the hydrostatical and pneumatical experiments begun at Cambridge and continued in London, [ca. 1710].

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A course of lectures for the hydrostatical and pneumatical experiments begun at Cambridge and continued in London, [ca. 1710].

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Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection of lectures by Cotes and Williams on "Hydrostatical Tryals and Conclusions." The experiments include "specific Gravities of Several particular Bodies actually found out. Some account of the various uses of such inquiries," "the Phenomena of Glass-Bubbles accounted for," and "the Effects of the Height & Spring of the Air in Syringes, Pumps, Siphons, polished Plates, Cupping Glasses, Suction Respiration, &c." The manuscript includes several diagrams and charts.

1 v. (140 p.) ; 31 x 20 cm.

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Whiston, William, 1667-1752

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University of Cambridge.

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