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XLIII. How to make a Pot of glasse not to sinke in the water, a pro∣per Secret. (Book 43)
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Natvrall and artificiall conclvsions. Compiled first in Latine, by the worthiest and best authors, both of the famous University of Padua in Italy, and divers other places. Englished since, and set forth by Thomas Hill, Londoner, whose own experiments in this kinde, were held most excellent. And now againe published, with a new addition of rarities, for the practise of sundry artificers; as also to recreate wits withall at vacant times.
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- Natvrall and artificiall conclvsions. Compiled first in Latine, by the worthiest and best authors, both of the famous University of Padua in Italy, and divers other places. Englished since, and set forth by Thomas Hill, Londoner, whose own experiments in this kinde, were held most excellent. And now againe published, with a new addition of rarities, for the practise of sundry artificers; as also to recreate wits withall at vacant times.
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"Natvrall and artificiall conclvsions. Compiled first in Latine, by the worthiest and best authors, both of the famous University of Padua in Italy, and divers other places. Englished since, and set forth by Thomas Hill, Londoner, whose own experiments in this kinde, were held most excellent. And now againe published, with a new addition of rarities, for the practise of sundry artificers; as also to recreate wits withall at vacant times." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A43811.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 2, 2024.
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TO doe this, first fill a glasse Pot full of Water, or Wine unto the brim, for otherwise it sinketh downe, and is drowned in the setting of it in the water: the rea∣son of which appeareth by this demonstration. Imagine that the Pot be D. whose neck is A. B. C. that vacant part of it A. B. in that A. B. doth beare above water, through the very ayre which is contained therein; and the weight of the glasse A. B. draweth toward the Center, and A.B. C. can not descend by straight line downe, for that it shall labour in vaine. And ther∣fore the signifier D. voweth in that D. when as wine is set in the water, it re∣sisteth not, and therefore A. B. doth de∣scend untill it come unto the upper face of the water, but when A. B. shall be in the
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upper face of the water, the part E. is then drowned, in that it is the nether part, and all the necke of the pot.