Excerpt from Treatise on Pneumatics: Being the Physics of Gases, Including Vapors
The frequent inquiries made in regard to the principles, different constructions, and modes of using the different meteorological instruments, which come within the subject treated of in this little volume, and the general and increasing interest felt in these matters, induce the author to believe that the present work will supply a want which has been much felt. While he has adhered to a strict systematic arrangement, and, on the part of science, sacrificed nothing to popularity, he hopes that he has made the explanations so clear and full as to be intelligible to all. Nor has he spared any trouble or expense in illustrating the subject by numerous appropriate wood-cuts made expressly for this work, and many of them entirely original. For the use of the different instruments a series of Tables has been added, including those of the Tensions of Vapor of Water, used with the Boiling-Point Barometer and the different Hygrometers, which Tables have been calculated for this work from those of Regnault, and are here given, for the first time, complete in English measures and Fahrenheit degrees.
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