Musschenbroek, Petrus van, Physicae experimentales, et geometricae de magnete, tuborum capillarium vitreorumque speculorum attractione, magnitudine terrae, cohaerentia corporum firmorum dissertationes: ut et ephemerides meteorologicae ultraiectinae

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            non confido quemquam dari adeo imperitum, qui eos extemplo
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            juxta artificioſiſſimos conflare non poterit: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6568" xml:space="preserve">primum enim ſollicitus
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            quære tubos vitreos in officina vitraria ductos, accurate cylindri-
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            cos, quorum interna cavitas perfecte cylindrica eſt, nam niſi ejuſ-
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            modi electi fuerint, nunquam tubos capillares perfecte cylindricos,
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            quales tamen pro experimentis accuratis deſiderantur, compones:
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6569" xml:space="preserve">perinde eſt fere cujuſnam fuerint diametri, nam ab una uſque ad ſex
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            plureſve lineas craſſities conducunt: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6570" xml:space="preserve">Tum cape Lampadem encau-
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            ſti inſtructam 100 pluribusve filis cotoneis, perpendiculariter ere-
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            ctis, atque in duos cumulos denſos congeſtis, in quorum medio
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            hiulcus maneat unius vel ſesqui linearum, quemadmodum conſpici
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            poteſt in Tab. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6571" xml:space="preserve">2. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6572" xml:space="preserve">fig. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6573" xml:space="preserve">8. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6574" xml:space="preserve">infuſo oleo, excitataque flamma tubum inflato-
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            rium tene eregione medii hiulci, ut ventum per eum pellas, flamma
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            condenſabitur, horizontali directione acta; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6575" xml:space="preserve">in hujus medio, ubi
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            fervor maximus regnat, tubum tene, ipſum perpetuo circumver-
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            tendo, ut æquabiliter calefiat, donec bene rubeat, ductilisque eva-
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            ſerit, tum ex flamma exemtum extrahe recta, ſponte tubum an-
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            guſtum formabis; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6576" xml:space="preserve">ſi cum impetu celeriterque extraxeris, acquires
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            anguſtiſſimum; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6577" xml:space="preserve">ſi tardius, latiorem: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6578" xml:space="preserve">ad anguſtiſſimos conflandos, ca-
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            piantur tubi minoris diametri, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6579" xml:space="preserve">bene in igne candefiant antequam
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            extrahantur, tum & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6580" xml:space="preserve">anguſtiſſimos & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6581" xml:space="preserve">plurimos pedes longos habe-
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            bis; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6582" xml:space="preserve">ſolent omnes hi eſſe conici, in medio anguſtiores, latiores ad
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            utrumque finem, ideo pro experimentis partes mediæ exſcindendæ
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            ex longiſſimis ſunt, quæ ſatis bene cylindricæ erunt.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s6584" xml:space="preserve">2. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6585" xml:space="preserve">Quia omne vitrum non æque magnam attrahendi vim habet,
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            etiam phænomenorum datur differentia; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6586" xml:space="preserve">ne quis igitur experimen-
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            ta noſtra imitatus, aliumque effectum paulo diverſum obſervans,
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            illico erroris nos arguat, ſi enim alterius indolis vitrum elegerit,
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            etiam diverſos a ſuis prioribus animadvertet effectus; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6587" xml:space="preserve">haud aliter ac
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            Magnetes debilioris aut præſtantioris virtutis cum Ferro plus mi-
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            nuſve virium communicant, Verſoriumque magis minuſve infra
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            horizontem deprimunt, atque variâ tempeſtate diverſas exhibent
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            operationes, uti ſæpe monui in Diſſertatione de Magnete.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s6589" xml:space="preserve">3. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6590" xml:space="preserve">Menſura in hoc Capite uſus fui Rhenolandica, in qua pes
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            dividitur in 12 pollices: </s>
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