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Liquid Pressures Barometer Balloon Antique Physics Print 1857

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Liquid Pressures Barometer Balloon

plate 18. 1-8. Illustrating the pressure of liquids .... 9 10. IU'g the law of Archimedes 11. The Cartesian devils 12-14. Hydrostatic balance 15. Nicholson's areometer 16. The scale areometer 17-19. Illustrating capillary attraction .... 20-30. IU'g phenomena of attraction of liquids and solids 31. Dutrochet's endosmometer 32. Common barometer 33-35. Gay Lussac's syphon baro 36-38. Fortin's meter barometer .... 39-41. Arago and Dulong's apparatus 42. Kopp's for differential proving Mariotte's barometerlaw 43. Kopp's volumeter (Quoted in the text as fig. 93) 44. Gay Lussac's hand air-pump 45. 46. Larger air-pump 47. Two-eylindered air-pump 48-50. Babinet's cock for obtaining the greatest rarefaction 51-53. The condensing pump 54-56. The syphon 57 58. Apparatus involving the theory of the syphon 60.1 59 62. Fountain Hero's Intermitting Cup of ball Tantalus involving spring .... the syphon 63. 64. Hero's fountain 65-71. Hydraulic press 72. Apparatus to measure the pressure of falling water 73. Ordinary air balloon 74. Marey Monge's copper balloon 93 see 43.by(The mistake figureof theis engraver.) marked 93
Iconographic Encyclopaedia of Science Literature and Art by JG Heck Issued 1857 New York

In VG condition or better trivial spotting or foxing age toning to edges well worthy of hanging for display.

Sheet measures c. 11 3/4 x 9 1/4