 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1847 - 606 pages
...although all those who have meditated on this subject are of a contrary opinion,) it will necessarily follow, that the weight and pressure of the air are the sole cause of this suspension of the mercury, and not the horror of a vacuum ; since it is very certain, that there is much more... | |
 | Henry Rogers - 1850 - 536 pages
...although all those who have meditated on this subject are of a contrary opinion), it will necessarily follow, that the weight and pressure of the air are the sole cause of this suspension of the mercury, and not the horror of a vacuum; since it is very certain that there is much more air... | |
 | Henry Rogers - 1853 - 470 pages
...although all those who have meditated on this subject are of a contrary opinion), it will necessarily follow, that the weight and pressure of the air are the sole cause of this suspension of the mercury, and not the horror of a vacuum ; since it is very certain that there is much more air... | |
 | Henry Rogers - 1853 - 478 pages
...although all those who have meditated on this subject are of a contrary opinion), it will necessarily follow, that the weight and pressure of the air are the sole cause of this suspension of the mercury, and not the horror of a vacuum ; since it is very certain that there is much more air... | |
 | William Whewell - 1858 - 622 pages
...would be more decisive. " You see," he says, " that if it happens that the height of the mercury at the top of the hill be less than at the bottom (which...air are the sole cause of this suspension, and not tlie horror of a vacuum : since it is very certain that there is more air to weigh on it at the bottom... | |
 | William Whewell - 1859 - 596 pages
...would be more decisive. " You see," he says, " that if it happens that the height of the mercury at the top of the hill be less than at the bottom (which...have many reasons to believe, though all those who ban thought about it are of a different opinion), it will follow that ike weight and pressure of the... | |
 | Blaise Pascal - 1859 - 562 pages
...although all those who have meditated on this subject are of a contrary opinion), it will necessarily follow that the weight and pressure of the air are the sole cause of this suspension of the mereury, and not the horror of a vacuum ; since it is very certain, that there is much more... | |
 | Sidney Augustus Norton - 1870 - 518 pages
...mountain. He thus reasoned: "If the height of the mercury is less at the top of a hill than at the bottom, it will follow that the weight and pressure of the air are the sole cause of the suspension, and not the horror of a vacuum, since it is very certain that there is more air to... | |
 | James Samuelson, Sir William Crookes - 1880 - 822 pages
...brother-in-law : — " You see that if it happens that the weight of the mercury at the top of the hill is less than at the bottom (which I have many reasons...have thought about it are of a different opinion)," — that is, the preceding philosophers, — " it will follow that the weight and pressure of the air... | |
 | Robert Steel - 1890 - 680 pages
...although all those who have meditated on this subject are of contrary opinion), it will necessarily follow that the weight and pressure of the air are the sole cause of this suspension of the mercury, and not the horror of a vacuum, — since it is very certain that there is much more... | |
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that if it happens that the height of the mercury at the top of the hill be less than at the bottom (which I have many reasons to believe, though all those who have thought about it are of a different opinion), it... 
