Remarks upon two late ingenious discourses the one, an essay touching the gravitation and non-gravitation of fluid bodies, the other, observations touching the Torricellian experiment, so far forth as they may concern any passages in his Enchiridium Metaphysicum / D. Henry More.
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Remarks upon two late ingenious discourses the one, an essay touching the gravitation and non-gravitation of fluid bodies, the other, observations touching the Torricellian experiment, so far forth as they may concern any passages in his Enchiridium Metaphysicum / D. Henry More.
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More, Henry, 1614-1687.
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1676.
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REMARK the Twenty eighth.
HEre the Learned Authour
does declare himself, that
all those experiments which the
Virtuosi would give an account
of from the pressure and elasti∣city
of the Air, p. 203. are plain∣ly
performed by suction and At∣traction
of the Air, when put
under a greater Tension or Rare∣faction;
which I must confess I
am much concerned to examine
how true it is, in reference to
what I have writ of the experi∣ment
of the weight hung at the
Embolus of the Air-pump in my
Enchiridium Metaphysicum. On
which therefore I may touch
something in this Chapter, but
more fully discover the mistake
of this opinion in the next, where
the Learned Authour pretends to
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deliver the true cause of the sus∣pension
of the Mercury in the
Torricellian Experiment.