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- 14:29, 3 December 2017 (diff | hist) . . (-9) . . .Mzc2.NzQ2OA
- 14:11, 3 December 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+1,642) . . N .Mzc2.NzQ2OA (Created page with "[ 37 ] hammer upon the plain, in fine weather, came off of itself upon the top of the mountian When this happened, the thermometer, which I called common, though exposed t...")
- 14:10, 3 December 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+6) . . .Mzc2.NzQ2Ng
- 14:09, 3 December 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+1,469) . . N .Mzc2.NzQ2Ng (Created page with "[ 36 ] we shall not owe to one man alone, but to the joint labours of several. Account of some of the first Phaenomena of the Humor observed with the HYGROMETER 75. Though...")
- 14:08, 3 December 2017 (diff | hist) . . (-5) . . .Mzc2.NzQ2NA
- 13:47, 3 December 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+1,752) . . N .Mzc2.NzQ2NA (Created page with "[ 35 ] in my hygrometers, I think it reasonable to hope that this instrument will receive a sensible degree of perfection on a second trial ; and that in time it will be brou...")
- 13:46, 3 December 2017 (diff | hist) . . (-14) . . .Mzc2.NzQ2Mg
- 13:45, 3 December 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+1,674) . . N .Mzc2.NzQ2Mg (Created page with "[ 34 ] be necessary to make fresh experiments, in order to determine the length of time that the ivory pipes ought to remain in water, and how long they must afterwards be...")
- 13:43, 3 December 2017 (diff | hist) . . (-13) . . .Mzc2.NzQ2MA
- 13:40, 3 December 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+1,697) . . N .Mzc2.NzQ2MA (Created page with "[ 33 ] nature closely ; and know that the regularity of her proceedings is connected with a foresight which is limited to us, by nothing but the limits of our abi≠ lities...")
- 13:29, 3 December 2017 (diff | hist) . . (-4) . . .Mzc2.NzQ1OA
- 13:27, 3 December 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+1,685) . . N .Mzc2.NzQ1OA (Created page with "[ 32 ] 69. There is another reason why this different organization of the different parts of the elephant's tooth makes it necessary to determine exactly the parts that ar...")
- 13:25, 3 December 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+3) . . .Mzc2.NzQ1Ng
- 13:22, 3 December 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+1,721) . . N .Mzc2.NzQ1Ng (Created page with "[ 31 ] regular change in their capacity, and consequently in the height of the mercury in the tubes. The differences of this kind which I have had occasion to observe, are...")
- 13:13, 3 December 2017 (diff | hist) . . (-9) . . .Mzc2.NzQ1NA
- 13:10, 3 December 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+1,613) . . N .Mzc2.NzQ1NA (Created page with "[ 30 ] scale happens at the same time to be the thinnest of them all. What connection there may be be≠ tween these two circumstances must be determined by experience. But i...")
- 13:07, 3 December 2017 (diff | hist) . . (-2) . . .Mzc2.NzQ1Mg
- 13:01, 3 December 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+1,545) . . N .Mzc2.NzQ1Mg (Created page with "[ 29 ] grometer, to those that first occured in all measures of physical causes;and I think that as the latter have been surmounted, we should not despair of con≠ quering...")
- 13:00, 3 December 2017 (diff | hist) . . (-9) . . .Mzc2.NzQ1MA
- 12:53, 3 December 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+1,675) . . N .Mzc2.NzQ1MA (Created page with "[ 28 ] that without perceiving it, a deviation from 80 to 104, was made in the space between the two funda≠ mental points of his thermometer. 65. If in the same manner we...")
- 12:52, 3 December 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+1,735) . . N .Mzc2.NzQ0OA (Created page with "[ 27 ] irregular than my hygrometer is at present. Though the first of the these instruments was very simple in it- self, yet barometers hung up in the same places used to v...")
- 12:40, 3 December 2017 (diff | hist) . . (0) . . .Mzc2.NzQ0Ng
- 12:37, 3 December 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+2) . . .Mzc2.NzQ0Ng
- 12:37, 3 December 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+1,544) . . N .Mzc2.NzQ0Ng (Created page with "[ 26 ] shut, has hitherto been 94, 99 1/2, 100 1/2, 105 1/2, in the same moment ; which is pretty nearly in the pro- portion of 19 to 21, between the hygrometer which remain...")
- 12:35, 3 December 2017 (diff | hist) . . (-7) . . .Mzc2.NzQ0NA
- 12:34, 3 December 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+1,673) . . N .Mzc2.NzQ0NA (Created page with "[ 25 ] being either too narrow or too short. The propor- tion I had settled between the capacity of this tube, and that of the ivory pipe, was deducedfrom the pre- liminary e...")
- 12:10, 3 December 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+4) . . .Mzc2.NzQ0Mg
- 12:09, 3 December 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+1,515) . . N .Mzc2.NzQ0Mg (Created page with "[ 24 ] ceptibly the whole of that day, and the next morn- ing stood at 9 1/2. 57. Another circumstance I was anxious to know, was, whether the hygrometer, after having been k...")
- 12:01, 3 December 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+1) . . .Mzc2.NzQ0MA
- 12:01, 3 December 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+1,608) . . N .Mzc2.NzQ0MA (Created page with "[ 23 ] Account of the first OBSERVATIONS made on the going of this HYGROMETER. Read June 10, 54 My first hygrometer was ready for 1773 observation at the beginning of last...")
- 11:59, 3 December 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+27) . . N .Mzc2.NzQzNg (Created page with "Fig II. Fig I. Hygrometer") (current)
- 11:55, 3 December 2017 (diff | hist) . . (-2) . . .Mzc2.NzQzNA
- 11:55, 3 December 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+1,453) . . N .Mzc2.NzQzNA (Created page with "[ 22 ] of the heat on the mercury. At the top of this scale is seen an index, over-against another small scale, marked upon the unmoveable part of the frame. The degrees of...")
- 11:53, 3 December 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+4) . . .Mzc2.NzQzMg
- 11:52, 3 December 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+1,631) . . N .Mzc2.NzQzMg (Created page with "[ 21 ] wood, which in that place fills a groove originally made throughout the whole length of the deal- board. 50. To keep the dust from getting through the opening of the...")
- 11:51, 3 December 2017 (diff | hist) . . (-12) . . .Mzc2.NzQzMA
- 11:49, 3 December 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+1,699) . . N .Mzc2.NzQzMA (Created page with " [ 20 ] naturally to be determined by the simplicity of a pro≠ portion between the degrees of the thermometer and those of the hygrometer, because this last was to be cor...")
- 11:48, 3 December 2017 (diff | hist) . . (-8) . . .Mzc2.NzQyOA
- 11:47, 3 December 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+1) . . .Mzc2.NzQyOA
- 11:46, 3 December 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+1,563) . . N .Mzc2.NzQyOA (Created page with "[ 19 ] 12 gr. or 1428 grains. All the pieces of my hy≠ grometer being put together, it weighed 373 grains, and when filled with the properquantity of mercury 833. It conse...")
- 13:52, 30 November 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+8) . . .Mzc2.NzQyNg
- 13:51, 30 November 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+1,638) . . N .Mzc2.NzQyNg (Created page with "[ 18 ] 43. I follow the last steps of the mercury in its fall, by means of a fine silken thread fixed very tight around the tube. This is left at the lowest point it has be...")
- 13:49, 30 November 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+1,698) . . N .Mzc2.NzQyNA (Created page with "[ 17 ] woth which the tube is for that reason to be filled, that in time completes its explusion, by making it pass through the pores of the ivory. To hasten this, I place my...")
- 13:47, 30 November 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+1,655) . . N .Mzc2.NzQyMg (Created page with "[ 16 ] 39· The introduction of the mercury is the next operation. I first roll a slip of paper three inches wide over the glass tube, and tie it fast to the extre mity w...")
- 13:42, 30 November 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+1,622) . . N .Mzc2.NzQyMA (Created page with "[ 15 ] 37. To hinder the part of that tube, which ene- closes the brass piece, from being affected by the variations of the humor, which might sometimes prevent a sufficient...") (current)
- 13:41, 30 November 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+1) . . .Mzc2.NzQxOA
- 13:23, 30 November 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+2) . . .Mzc2.NzQxOA
- 13:23, 30 November 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+1,701) . . N .Mzc2.NzQxOA (Created page with " [ 14 ] in d d e e (fig. 1.). Its internal diameter is about 1/4 of a line. The reason why it should not be sensibly less will be given hereafter (52); and if it was sen- s...")
- 13:10, 30 November 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+1,686) . . N .Mzc2.NzQxNg (Created page with " [ 13 ] 31. Prepare after this a brass cyclinder, about 3 2/4 inches long, and to one of its extremities fix the pully proper to receive the string of the bow when the piece...")
- 13:06, 30 November 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+4) . . .Mzc2.NzQxNA
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