Huygens, Christiaan, Christiani Hugenii opera varia; Bd. 1: Opera mechanica

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            ſolum, quia ultimum Barometrum multo minoris voluminis
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            eſt, ſed &</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6056" xml:space="preserve">, quia obſervavi, quod in priori parum aëris,
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            quem aqua exhalat in vacuo, pedetentim augeatur temporis
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            diuturnitate; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6057" xml:space="preserve">cui vitio certum eſt Barometrum 32 pedum,
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            de quo ſupra dixi, pariter obnoxium eſſe; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6058" xml:space="preserve">Et, ut huic ma-
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            lo occurratur, quærendus eſt liquor, qui non producit aë-
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            rem, ut faciunt aqua & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6059" xml:space="preserve">ſpiritus vini. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6060" xml:space="preserve">Sed patet, quod po-
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            ſterius noſtrum Barometrum hoc vitio non laboret, quoniam
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            aqua in vacuo non eſt incluſa: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6061" xml:space="preserve">Quod ſi percipiamus aquam,
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            quæ eſt in poſteriore Barometro, vapores emittere, tantum
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            ſuperius infundenda eſt gutta olei, quod frigore non inſpiſ-
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            ſatur, quodque calore non emittit vapores, ut oleum amy-
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            gdali dulcis.</s>
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          <head xml:id="echoid-head241" xml:space="preserve">V.</head>
          <head xml:id="echoid-head242" style="it" xml:space="preserve">Nova vis movens mediante pulvere nitrato
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          & aëre.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s6063" xml:space="preserve">Deſideratum a longo tempore eſt artificium quo vis pul-
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            veris pyrii aliis, quam quibus huc uſque inſerviit, uſibus
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            applicari poſſet, in quibus omnibus vis admodum ſubita re-
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            quiritur, qualem obſervamus in exploſione bombardæ & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6064" xml:space="preserve">ſclo-
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            peti & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6065" xml:space="preserve">disruptione cuniculorum: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6066" xml:space="preserve">ſi impetus ille promtus poſſet
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            moderari & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6067" xml:space="preserve">reduci ad vim magis placidam, maximam in me-
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            chanicis utilitatem haberet, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6068" xml:space="preserve">in multis occaſionibus, in qui-
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            bus vim hominum, equorum, venti, aliarumque potentia-
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            rum adhibemus, inſerviret. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6069" xml:space="preserve">Ad hunc effectum excogitavi ma-
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            chinam, hic delineatam. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6070" xml:space="preserve">Hanc non propono, acſi in omni-
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            bus partibus perfecta foret, ſedtanquam inventum, quod cum
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            pro parte ſucceſſit, poterit ad majorem proferri perfectionem.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s6072" xml:space="preserve">A A cylindrus cavus eſt, intus bene politus, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6073" xml:space="preserve">ubique
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0364-01" xlink:href="note-0364-01a" xml:space="preserve">TAB. XXXII.
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              Fig. 3.</note>
            æqualis magnitudinis; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6074" xml:space="preserve">B eſt embolus in ſuperiori parte Cy-
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            lyndri, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6075" xml:space="preserve">qui in hoc poteſt moveri; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6076" xml:space="preserve">in C C cylindrus eſt per-
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            foratus duobus foraminibus, quorum diametri circiter ſunt {1/4}
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            diametri cylindri; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6077" xml:space="preserve">tubi D, D, corii madidi & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6078" xml:space="preserve">mollis, </s>
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