 | 1825 - 458 pages
...trials and much charge I have perfectly tried all these. 68 A FIRE WATEB-WOBK. An admirable and moat forcible way to drive up water by fire, not by drawing or sucking it upwards, tor that must be as the philosopher calleth it, Intm spluuram activitatis, which is but at such a distance.... | |
 | Abraham Rees - 1819 - 754 pages
...projects, which it details. No. 68. of this Century contains as follows : — " 68. An admirable and moft forcible way to drive up water by fire ; not by drawing or fucking it upwards, for that muft be as the philofopher callcth it aira Jplnram aSivitatit, which is... | |
 | Thousand notable things - 1822 - 604 pages
...exquisite way inventible, yet by several trials and much charge I have perfectly tried all these. 68. An admirable and most forcible way to drive up water...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... | |
 | Charles Frederick Partington - 1822 - 382 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 splucram activitatis, which is but at such a distance. But this way hath... | |
 | William Bengo' Collyer - 1822 - 514 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 spharam activitatis, which is but at such a distance. But this way hath... | |
 | 1822 - 722 pages
...therefore, with extracting that article from the noble author's MSS. preserved in the British Museum. *' An admirable and most forcible way to drive up water...not by drawing or sucking it upwards, for that must he as the philosophers call it, infra sphteram aclivifatis, which is but at such a distance. But this... | |
 | Robert Stuart - 1824 - 334 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 sphceram activitatis, which is but at such a distance ; but this way hath no bounder,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1825 - 576 pages
...of the following four ' Inventions,' Nos. 68, 98, 99, and 100, which are as under: — No. LXVIII. ' An admirable and most forcible way to drive up water...upwards, for that must be, as the philosopher calleth it, infra splixram activitatis, which is but at such a distance. But this way hath no bounder, if the vessels... | |
 | 1825 - 490 pages
...considered to rest. It is as follows : •• I have invented an admirable and most forcible way to draw up water by fire ; not by drawing or sucking it upwards, for that must be, as the philosopher calleth it, infra sphaeram activitatis, (within the sphere of its activity?) which is but at such a distance; but... | |
 | 1825 - 616 pages
...suction, (by the pressure of the atmosphere into a vacuum) ; for the 68th article commences with these words : " An admirable and most forcible way to drive up water by fire, not by drawing nor sucking it upwards, for that must be as the philosopher calleth it, intra sphceram activitaiis,... | |
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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... 
