An historical and philosophical account of the barometer, or, weather-glass. Wherein the reason and use of that instrument, the theory of the atmosphere, and the causes of its different gravitation, are assign'd and explain'd. And a modest attempt from thence made towards a rational account and probable judgment of the weather / By Edward Saul.

  • Saul, Edward, 1677-1754
Date:
1735
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An historical and philosophical account of the barometer, or, weather-glass. Wherein the reason and use of that instrument, the theory of the atmosphere, and the causes of its different gravitation, are assign'd and explain'd. And a modest attempt from thence made towards a rational account and probable judgment of the weather / By Edward Saul. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The Pleafare Your Grace takes in Spe¬ culations of this Kind, efpecially in fuch as are agreeable to Nature and Reafon, is the belt Apology I can make for the Freedom of addreffing thefe to You ; but the real Motive that induces me to it, is rather to do Juftice to Your Grace, in what the World muft allow to be a very bright and diftinguilhing Part of Your Character. I t is recorded, by dPlutarch, of the Elder Cato, that he was well advanc'd into Years* before he enter’d upon the Study of the Greek Tongue * or as the Roman Hiftorian fays of him, Liter arum cupidifjtmus, earum fhidium Jenior arripuit \ tantum vero in eis progreffumfecit, at non facile re per ire pofjts, neque de Greeds, neque de Italicis rebusy quod ei faerit incognitum. Another Inftance of the like Nature is related of a famous Author of the laft Cen¬ tury ; who (being often puzzled and per¬ plex'd by the inquifitive Temper of his Son, and afhanfd of not being able to give him a rational and fatisfa&ory Anfwer) betook himfelf to his Accidence at the Age of 44, and made fo quick a Progrefs in his Studies, from fo late a Beginning, that before he was do, he had pubiififd three or four Folios of