 | 1833 - 598 pages
...by expansion, we will submit the Marquis's own description of thejire-water work : — No. LXVIII. An admirable and most forcible way to drive up water...upwards, for that must be, as the philosopher calleth it, infra sphceram activitatis, which is but at such a distance. But this way hath no bounder, if the vessel... | |
 | 1829 - 392 pages
...in the year 1663. In the sixty-eighth article the noble author thus describes his invention : — " An admirable and most forcible way to drive up water...upwards, for that must be, as the philosopher calleth it, InfrA ttpharam activitatis, which is but at such a distance. But this way hath no bounder if the vessel... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 424 pages
...therefore, with extracting that article from the noble author's MS. preserved in the British Museum. 44. ' An admirable and most forcible way to drive up water...drawing or sucking it upwards, for that must be as the philosophers call it infra sphceram activitatis, which is but at such a distance. But this way hath... | |
 | Robert Stuart - 1829 - 372 pages
...the Steam Engine. It is in these words: — " I have invented an admirable and forcible way to draw up water by fire ; not by drawing or sucking it upwards, for that must be, as the philosopher terms it, infra sphœram activitatis, which is but at such a distance ; but this way hath no bounder,... | |
 | 1829 - 906 pages
...Century of Inventions," by the Marquis of Worcester; the following is a copy of that numbered 68. " An admirable and most forcible way to drive up water by fire, not by drawing it or sucking it upwards, for that must be, as the philosopher calleth it, 'mini sphasram aclivilalis,... | |
 | Robert Stuart - 1829 - 510 pages
...capable of the most improbable performance of all his inventions. The announcement is as follows : — ' An admirable and most forcible way to drive up water by fire, not drawing or sucking it upp 50 STBAM-ENGINE. ward, for that must be as the philosopher calleth it, infra... | |
 | Elijah Galloway - 1829 - 890 pages
...manuscript of which is preserved in the British Museum. The following is the Marquis's own description :— "An admirable and most forcible way to drive up water...sucking it upwards, for that must be, as the philosopher calls it, infra splueram activitatis, which is but at such a distance. But this way hath no bounder,... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner - 1830 - 228 pages
...is given in that work of the contrivance : " I have invented an admirable and forcible way to draw up water by fire ; not by drawing or sucking it upwards, for that must be, as the philosopher terms it, intra spheeram activitatis, which is but at such a distance. But this way hath no bounder... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1831 - 424 pages
...the superjacent air within the vessel. discoveries here enumerated, the sixty-eighth is entitled ' An admirable and most forcible way to drive up water by fire.' As far as may be judged from the vague description which the Marquis gives us of his apparatus, it... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1831 - 432 pages
...the superjacent air within the Tessel. discoveries here enumerated, the sixty-eighth is entitled ' An admirable and most forcible way to drive up water by fire.' As far as may be judged from the vague description which the Marquis gives us of his apparatus, it... | |
| |
An admirable and most forcible way to drive up water by fire, not by drawing or sucking it upwards, for that must be as the philosopher calleth it, infra spheeram activitatis, which is but at such a distance. But this way hath no bounder, if the vessels... 
