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" This will cause the air at the equator to stand more than seven miles higher from the surface of the earth to the top of the atmosphere than at the north pole. "
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh - Page 541
by Royal Society of Edinburgh - 1869
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The Atmosphere and Atmospherical Phenomena

Thomas Dick - 1799 - 200 pages
...it is probable, will never be accurately determined. If, indeed, the air were of an equal density, from the surface of the earth to the top of the atmosphere, its height might be easily determined ; for it is found by experiment, that the weight of a column...
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An Epitome of the Arts and Sciences: Being a Comprehensive System of the ...

William Duane - 1811 - 378 pages
...the middle ; and that of the middle is finer than the lower. The weight of a column of air, reaching from the surface of the earth to the top of the atmosphere, is equal to that of a column of water, of the same diameter, 33 feet high ; for so high, and no higher...
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The New Pocket Cyclopædia: Or, Elements of Useful Knowledge, Methodically ...

John Millard - 1813 - 704 pages
...it. Thus it is found, by means of a barometer (see the next chapter) that the weight of a column of air from the surface of the earth to the top of the atmosphere, is on a medium equivalent to the pressure of a column of mercury of equal base, in the tube of the barometer,...
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The New Pocket Cyclopaedia: Or, Elements Or Useful Knowledge, Methodically ...

Encyclopaedias, John Millard - 1813 - 712 pages
...it. Thus it is found, by means of a barometer (see the next chapter) that the weight of a column of air from the surface of the earth to the top of the atmosphere, is on a medium equivalent to the pressure of a column of mercury of equal base, in the tube of the barometer,...
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Ferguson's Lectures on Select Subjects, in Mechanics, Hydrostatics ...

James Ferguson - 1814 - 420 pages
...column of water 33 feet high, is equal to the weight of as thick a PLATE x. column of air, reaching from the surface of the earth to the top of the atmosphere : so that there will then be an equilibrium, and, consequently, though there would be weight enough...
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Lectures on Select Subjects in Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Hydraulics ..., Volume 1

James Ferguson - 1823 - 406 pages
...weight of a column of water 33 feet high, is equal to the weight of as thick a column of air, reaching from the surface of the earth to the top of the atmosphere ; so that there will then be an equilibrium, and, consequently, though there would be weight enough...
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Register of Arts, and Journal of Patent Inventions, Volume 1

Luke Herbert - 1824 - 394 pages
...because the weight of a column o£ water 33 feet high is equal to the weight of a column of air reaching from the surface of the earth to the top of the atmosphere. Mercury may be drawn through a Syphon in the same manner as water ; but then the utmost height of the...
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Natural Philosophy: With an Explanation of Scientific Terms, and ..., Volume 1

1829 - 500 pages
...from which we may infer that a column of air, having a square inch for its base, and which extends from the surface of the earth to the top of the atmosphere, weighs about fifteen pounds*. The atmospheric engine is a machine whose efficacy depends on the principle...
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The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of ..., Part 2, Volume 17

Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 426 pages
...from which we may infer that a column of air, having a square inch for its base, and which extends from the surface of the earth to the top of the atmosphere, weighs about fifteen pounds. The atmospheric engine is a machine whose efficacy depends on the principle...
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The Christian Philosopher: Designed to Exhibit in the Outlines of Natural ...

William Martin - 1832 - 504 pages
...near the surface of the earth. It is found by means of the barometer, that the weight of a column of air from the surface of the earth to the top of the atmosphere, is on a medium equivalent to the pressure of a column of mercury of equal base, on the tube of the barometer...
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