The physical treatises of Pascal : the equilibrium of liquids and the weight of the mass of the air / translated by I.H.B. and A.G.H. Spiers ; with introduction and notes by Frederick Barry.

  • Pascal, Blaise, 1623-1662
Date:
1937
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Publication/Creation

New York : Columbia University Press, 1937.

Physical description

xxviii, 181 pages, 3 unnumbered folded leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Contents

A treatise on the equilibrium of liquids -- Treatise on the weight of the mass of the air -- Fragments of other works by Pascal -- Experiments on the equilibrium of fluids -- Appendices: Fourth book of statics / by Simon Stevin ; Fifth book of statics / by Simon Stevin ; Galileo's remarks on nature's abhorrence of a vacuum ; Torricelli's letters on the pressure of the atmosphere.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliography (p. [171]-173) and index.

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Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2008. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) Mode of access: Intranet.

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