Volume 1

An introduction to a general system of hydrostaticks and hydraulicks, philosophical and practical : Wherein the most reasonable and advantageous methods of raising and conducting water, for the watering noblemens and gentlemens seats, buildings, gardens, &c., are carefully (and in a manner not yet publish'd in any language) laid down ... / By Stephen Switzer.

  • Switzer, Stephen, 1682?-1745.
Date:
1729
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Credit: An introduction to a general system of hydrostaticks and hydraulicks, philosophical and practical : Wherein the most reasonable and advantageous methods of raising and conducting water, for the watering noblemens and gentlemens seats, buildings, gardens, &c., are carefully (and in a manner not yet publish'd in any language) laid down ... / By Stephen Switzer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Pipes, for which the ingenious Mr. Edwards of Mon¬ mouth has a Patent; and which, as we are inform’d, by the Reverend Dr. 'Defaguliers, in the Evening Poft of August ift this prefent Year 172.7, did bear all the Comprefture of Air and Water that the Tork-buildings Engine could lay upon it; and that without making the lead Fracture, either in the Pipe, or the Cement that join’d the Pipes together, which has brought me to what was my next and indeed principal Aim, I mean, the Theory and Practice of Hydroftaticks and Hydraulicks ; From the firft of which, we learn the Motion and Equi¬ librium of Water and other Fluids, from their Gravity, Elafticity and Impulfe, and from the latter, a Mechanical Account of thofc Powers, by which Water is thrown up out of the deepeft Wells and Caverns, to the Tops of. the higheft Hills. “ Hydroftaticks (fays the honourable and ingenious “ Mr. Hoyle, in his Preface to his Hydroftatical Para- “ doxes) is a Part of Study or Philofophy which ought c‘ to be look’d upon as the moll ingenious of any ; “ the Theorems and Problems of this Art, being “ the handfome Productions of Reafon, and affor- “ ding the nobleft Difcoveries, not only pleafing, but u alfo moft furprizing and wonderful; in that moft “ of the Phenomena of Nature can hardly be under- u ftood, without Hydroftatical Principles. ” For the II- luftration of which, I have made Uie of thofe Experi¬ ments which have been laid down and explain’d by that Honourable Author, with others of great Note amongft the Learned, corroborated by an Experiment, which, in Honour of its Inventor, will in all Probability be cal- >■ led Torricellian, as long as Time it felf fhall laft. To Z