 | Charles Frederick Partington - 1836 - 390 pages
...therefore, with extracting that article from the noble author's MS. preserved in the British Museum. " 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 sphferam activitatis, which is but at such a distance. But this way hath... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner - 1836 - 386 pages
...terms in the sixty-eighth invention in the work above named: — . " I have invented an admirable and forcible way to drive up water by fire;, not by drawing...sucking it upwards, for that must be, as the philosopher terms it, infra spseram activitatis, which is but at such a distance. But this way hath no bounder... | |
 | Elijah Galloway - 1836 - 888 pages
...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...fire, not by drawing or sucking it upwards, for that mint be, as the philosopher calls it, infra sphteram activitatis, which is but at such a distance.... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner - 1836 - 368 pages
...terms in the sixty-eighth invention in {he work above named: — . "I have invented an admirable and forcible way to drive up water by fire; not by drawing or sucking it upwards, fopthat must be, as the philosopher terms it, infra spseram activitatis, which is but at such a distance.... | |
 | 1837 - 516 pages
...appeared in France during the time that Worcester resided there. t [" No. LXVIII. (A Fire Waterwork.) — An admirable and most forcible way to drive up water...upwards, for that must be, as the philosopher calleth it, infra sphceram aclivitatiy, which is but at such a distance. But this way hath no bounder, if the vessels... | |
 | 1838 - 508 pages
...value of its recondensation. The Marquiss of Worcester mentions it .in his " Century of Inventions" as " an admirable and most forcible way to drive up water by fire." Sir Samuel Morland was acquainted with it as a moving force about 1685, and designates numerically... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1839 - 554 pages
...which terminated in this important discovery." The Marquis's account of his invention is as follows.— "An admirable and most forcible way to drive up water...sucking it upwards, for that must be as the philosopher callcth it, Infra Spheeram activitatis, which is but tfote 49. Vide Historical and Descriptive Account... | |
 | 1840 - 908 pages
...première machine à feu) is described in these terms, under the head of the 68th invention: — '• An admirable and most forcible way to drive up water...upwards, for that must be, as the philosopher calleth it, intrà sphœram acíiviíalis, which is but at such a distance. But this way hath no bounder, if the... | |
 | Paul Rapsey Hodge - 1840 - 266 pages
...appeared in print in 1663. We there find the following Name and Scantling : "LXVIII. A Fire Water-Work.— An admirable and most forcible way to drive up water...; for that must be, as the Philosopher calleth it, infra sph&ram activitatis, which is but at such a distance. But this way hath no bounder, if the vessels... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner - 1840 - 576 pages
...terms in. the sixty-eighth invention, in the work above named : — " I have invented an admirable and forcible way to drive up water by fire; not by drawing...sucking it upwards, for that must be, as the philosopher terms it, infra sphterum activitatis, which is but at such a distance. But this way hath no bounder... | |
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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... 
