Tracts : consisting of observations about the saltness of the sea: an account of a statical hygroscope and its uses: together with an appendix about the force of the air's moisture: a fragment about the natural and preternatural state of bodies. /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Sold by S. Smith at the Prince's Arms in St. Paul's Church-yard.,
1690.
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| Edition: | The Second Edition. |
| Series: | Early English books online.
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Table of Contents:
- Of the positive or privative nature of cold, a sceptical dialogue ...
- Two problems about cold, grounded on new experiments, and proposed in a letter to a friend: an attempt to manifest and measure the great expansive force of freezing water; a new experiment about the production of cold by the conflict of bodies appearing to make an ebullition
- Observations and experiments about the saltness of the sea
- The fourth section belonging to the tract formerly published under the title, Relations about the bottom of the sea
- A paradox of the natural and preternatural state of bodies, especially of the air
- A statical hygroscope proposed to be farther tryed, in a letter to H. Oldenburgh Esq. ...
- A new experiment and other instances of the efficacy of the air's moisture.