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Hydrostaticks: or, Instructions concerning water-works. Collected out of the papers of Sir Samuel Morland : Containing the method which he made use of in this curious art.
Morland, S. (Samuel), Sir, 1625-1695Date: 1697
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Hydrostatical and pneumatical lectures, by Roger Cotes, A. M. Late Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy at Cambridge. Published from the Author's original Manuscript, with notes, by Robert Smith, D. D. Late Master of Trinity College, Cambridge.
Cotes, Roger, 1682-1716.Date: M.DCC.LXXV. [1775]
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Hydrostatical and pneumatical lectures by Roger Cotes A. M. Late Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy at Cambridge. The second edition. By Robert Smith D. D. Master of Trinity College Cambridge.
Cartwright, Edmund, 1743-1823.Date: M.DCC.XLVII. [1747]
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An universal system of water and water-works, philosophical and practical. In four books. Faithfully digested, from the most approv'd writers on this subject, by Stephen Switzer. Containing I. An Historical Account of the Chief Water-Works that were and are remarkable in Ancient and Modern Times; more particularly the Roman Aqueducts, &c. and the Honour they have contributed to the respective Places where they have been used. II. The Different Hypotheses which have been laid down concerning the Original and Rise of Springs; of the Good and Bad Properties of Water; the Best Manner of Discovering and Searching for Springs; and the Taking of True Levels, in order for the Conducting Water to its several intended Uses. III. Hydrostatical Experiments (relating to the Motion of Water) selected from the Most-Celebrated Foreign and English Authors, more particularly Boyle, Hooke, Wallis, Lowthorpe, &c. Also the full Description and Uses of Mechanical Engines for the Forcing Water to great Heights, and applying the same to the Watering Gentlemens Seats and Gardens, in a better Manner than any hitherto extant. IV. Some Curious Disquisitions concerning the Vacuum of the Ancients; the Gravitation of Fluids; the Elasticity, Dilatation, and Compression of Air; the best Methods of Conveying Water, and for making Reservoirs, Basons, Cascades, Cataracts, Rural Grotesque Canals, Fountains, and all Kinds of Ornamental Water-Works. V. A Collection of Desions for this Purpose from the most eminent Masters, finely Engraven on Sixty Copper-Plates. In two volumes.
Switzer, Stephen, 1682-1745.Date: MDCCXXXIV. [1734]
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The young gentleman's mechanicks: Containing The more Useful and Easy Elements of Mechanicks, more properly so called, of Staticks, and Hydrostaticks. By Edward Wells, D. D. Rector of Cotesbach in Leicestershire.
Wells, Edward, 1667-1727.Date: 1713

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Hydrostatics - Early works to 1800

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Hydrostaticks: or, Instructions concerning water-works. Collected out of the papers of Sir Samuel Morland : Containing the method which he made use of in this curious art.

Hydrostatical and pneumatical lectures, by Roger Cotes, A. M. Late Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy at Cambridge. Published from the Author's original Manuscript, with notes, by Robert Smith, D. D. Late Master of Trinity College, Cambridge.

Hydrostatical and pneumatical lectures by Roger Cotes A. M. Late Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy at Cambridge. The second edition. By Robert Smith D. D. Master of Trinity College Cambridge.

The young gentleman's mechanicks: Containing The more Useful and Easy Elements of Mechanicks, more properly so called, of Staticks, and Hydrostaticks. By Edward Wells, D. D. Rector of Cotesbach in Leicestershire.