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A description of the nature, construction, and use of the Torricellian, or simple barometer : With a Scale of Rectification For estimating the True Altitude of the Column of Mercury (equal to the Weight of the Atmosphere) to the Hundredth Part of an Inch. Also the theory and construction of the compound barometer ; the Nature and Use of the Thermometer, and Hygrometer. With an Appendix, Containing an Analytical Solution of a Barometrical Problem. The whole illustrated by Copper-Plate Figures of the several Instruments. By Benjamin Martin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Barometers--Early works to 1800.
- Barometers.
- Hygrometers--Early works to 1800.
- Hygrometers.
- Thermometers--Early works to 1800.
- Thermometers.
- Thermometers and thermometry--Early works to 1800.
- Thermometers and thermometry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (24p.,plate )
- Other Title:
- Description of the nature, construction, and use of the Torricellian, or simple barometer.
- Place of Publication:
- London : printed for, and sold by the author, in Fleet-Street, and by the Booksellers in City and Country, MDCCLXVI. [1766]
- Notes:
- Reproduction of original from Harvard University Houghton Library.
- Cited in:
- English Short Title Catalog, N6503.
- OCLC:
- 642217653
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