The discourse made before the Royal Society the 26. of November, 1674, concerning the use of duplicate proportion in sundry important particulars together with a new hypothesis of springing or elastique motions / by Sir William Petty, Kt. ...

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The discourse made before the Royal Society the 26. of November, 1674, concerning the use of duplicate proportion in sundry important particulars together with a new hypothesis of springing or elastique motions / by Sir William Petty, Kt. ...
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Petty, William, Sir, 1623-1687.
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London :: Printed for John Martyn ...,
1674.
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Physics -- Early works to 1800.
Atomic structure -- Early works to 1800.
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"The discourse made before the Royal Society the 26. of November, 1674, concerning the use of duplicate proportion in sundry important particulars together with a new hypothesis of springing or elastique motions / by Sir William Petty, Kt. ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A54611.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 15, 2024.

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Page 104

The Fifteenth Instance, In the Blast of Bellows.

IN Iron-work Furnaces are the greatest and most regular moving Bellows that are any where used; the which are commonly turned by the evenest over∣shot Wheels. Now the Times wherein these Bel∣lows rise and fall, are Roots of the Strength of such Bellows-blast upon

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the fire; for rising in double Quickness admits double air in the same Time; which being in like manner squeezed out a∣gain, double Quickness makes double Expulsion, and consequently double Swiftness; (the whole pas∣sing through the same Twire-pipe in half the time;) and double Swift∣ness makes quadruple ef∣fects upon the fire or Fur∣nace, as aforesaid.

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