EXPERIMENT XXVI.
* 1.1IT being usually taught, That the Motion of a Pendulum is something quicker, accordingly as the Medium it moves in, is thinner; we su∣spended one, which weigh'd about twenty Drachms in our Receiver, fixing it to the Cover
The works of the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esq., epitomiz'd by Richard Boulton ... ; illustrated with copper plates.
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- The works of the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esq., epitomiz'd by Richard Boulton ... ; illustrated with copper plates.
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- Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.
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- 1699-1700.
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by a piece of Silk; and having fix'd another of an equal weight without the Receiver, we gave them both an equal Motion, and observ'd, that whilst the Latter made twenty Vibrations, the Former counted twenty; but the Pendulum, be∣ing afterwards put into Motion in the exhausted Receiver, and likewise in the same Receiver, before it was exhausted, continu'd it's Vibrations to an equal space of Time in both; so that from what we could observe, the Difference of the Vibrations in Air, and that more rarify'd Me∣dium, viz. the exhausted Receiver, was scarce sensible.
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Concerning the Vibra∣tions of a Pendulum.