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" From the foregoing statements it may be safely inferred that " the mean height of the barometer at the level of the sea being the same in every part of the globe... "
Report of the ... Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of ... - Page 86
by British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1841
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Recreations in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy ...

Jacques Ozanam - 1803 - 554 pages
...in levelling, may be safely disregarded. " The French hav'e heretofore considered 28 Paris inches as the mean height of the barometer at the level of the sea, that is 29-84 English inches. But from 1400 observations, made at Rochelle by Fleurieu de Bellevue,...
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An Elementary Treatise on Natural Philosophy, Volume 1

René Just Haüy - 1807 - 478 pages
...on account of their assuming 98 French or 29'9 English inches, instead of 30'OS English inches, for the mean height of the barometer at the level of the sea, are suggested by Mr. "Kirwttn, in his tract " On the Variation of the Atmosphere." TR. (a) M. Girari},...
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Book I. Of the apparent motions of the celestial bodies. Book II. Of the ...

Pierre Simon marquis de Laplace - 1809 - 408 pages
...its weight balances that of the mercury in the barometer. At the temperature of melting ice and at the mean height of the barometer at the level of the sea, which height is nearly seventy-six centimetres, the weight of air is to that of a similar column of...
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A System of Chemistry, Volume 4

Thomas Thomson - 1810 - 734 pages
...diminish the density of the air, are at their maximum, while at the pole they are at their minimum. The mean height of the barometer at the level of the sea, all • Mamintcr Tru/.ToL iv. p 543. i Or Halley. •ver the globe, is 30 inches ; the weight of the...
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Retrospect of Philosophical, Mechanical, Chemical, and ..., Volume 5

1810 - 606 pages
...account of the assumption of 28 French or 2p.C) English inches, instead of 30.08 English inches, for the mean height of the barometer at the level of the sea, are pointed out by Mr. Kinvcm, in his tract "' On the Variation of the Atmosphere." In the present...
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Outlines of Natural Philosophy: Being Heads of Lectures Delivered ..., Volume 1

John Playfair - 1812 - 344 pages
...the steam. The mean weight of the atmosphere is here understood to be equal to 30 inches of mercury, the mean height of the barometer at the level of the sea. In the construction of thermometers, care should be taken to mark the boiling point, or 212, only when...
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Recreations in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy ...

Jacques Ozanam - 1814 - 508 pages
...Bellevue, and from five years' observations made at Port Louis, in the isle of France, he concludes the mean height of the barometer at the level of the sea to be 28 inches and 2 lines and ±% of a line, in the temperatures of from 52* to 55° Fahrenheit,...
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A Treatise on Topography, for Both Civil and Military Purposes

Charles Stanislas de Malortie de Martemont - 1815 - 320 pages
...sensible error, regard them as constant during an interval of someyears. For performing the calculation, the mean height of the barometer at the level of the sea must be known. According to the experiments of Sir George Schuckburg, which are regarded as very accurate,...
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A Treatise on the Science & Practical Detail of Trigonometrical Surveying ...

Charles Stanislas de Malortie de Martemont - 1820 - 560 pages
...sensible error, regard them as constant during an interval of some years. For performing the calculation, the mean height of the barometer at the level of the sea must be known. According to the experiments of Sir George Schuckburg, which are regarded as very accurate,...
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Works, with a memoir of the author, Volume 3

John Playfait - 1822 - 516 pages
...ever likely to be obtained from it. It would, however, be of consequence to determine, by observation, the mean height of the barometer at the level of the sea in the different regions of the earth. That mean height is not every where the same. Under the line,...
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