Repertorium commentationum a societatibus litterariis editarum, Volume 4

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apud Henricum Dieterich, 1805 - Science
 

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Page 187 - a mean , - by which their several systems might be preserved from the disorder and final ruin . to which they seen liable- by that waste of matter and by the law of gravitation.
Page xxxii - Alexander BRICE, . Letter — containing a new manner of measuring the velocity of wind and an experiment to ascertain to what quantity of water a fall
Page 275 - Some observations, made during the last three years of the quantity of the variation of the magnetic horizontal needle to the
Page 41 - A new experiment, -concerning an effect of the varying weight of - the- atmosphere upon some bodies in the water, suggesting a conjecture , that the very alterations of the air
Page 37 - performance , and of some experiments and observations, tending to ascertain the circumstances on which the perfection of that machine depends and to render its theory more compleat.
Page 268 - Account of some improvements of the mariner's compass, in order to render the card and needle, propOsed by Dr. Godwin KNIGHT.
Page 60 - of wind, and an experiment to ascertain to what quantity of water a fall of snow is equal. Philos. - Transact.
Page 99 - it from the ruin , tO- which, without such a counterba-lance, it seems liable by that
Page xxxiii - Experiments to prove that the luminousness of the sea arises from - the putrefaction of
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