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Author Pascal, Blaise, 1623-1662.

Title The physical treatises of Pascal [electronic resource] : the equilibrium of liquids and the weight of the mass of the air / translated by I.H.B. and A.G.H. Spiers ; with introduction and notes by Frederick Barry.

Imprint New York : Columbia University Press, 1937.

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Description xxviii, 181 p., [3] folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Series Records of civilization: sources and studies ; no. 28
Records of civilization, sources and studies ; no. 28.
ACLS Humanities E-Book.
Bibliography Includes bibliography (p. [171]-173) and index.
Contents A treatise on the equilibrium of liquids -- Treatise on the weight of the mass of the air -- Fragments of other works by Pascal -- Experiments on the equilibrium of fluids -- Appendices: Fourth book of statics / by Simon Stevin ; Fifth book of statics / by Simon Stevin ; Galileo's remarks on nature's abhorrence of a vacuum ; Torricelli's letters on the pressure of the atmosphere.
Reproduction Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2008. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) Mode of access: Intranet.
Subject Hydrostatics.
Air.
Atmospheric pressure.
Added Author Barry, Frederick, 1876-1943.
Spiers, I. H. B. (Isidore Henry Bowles)
Spiers, Alexander Guy Holborn, 1881-
Stevin, Simon, 1548-1620.
Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642
Torricelli, Evangelista, 1608-1647.
American Council of Learned Societies.
In: ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: https://www.humanitiesebook.org/
Standard No. 2027/heb06035 hdl

 
    
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