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The motion of water and other fluids. Being a treatise of hydrostaticks / Written originally in French, by the late Monsieur Marriotte ... Divided into five parts, and translated into English. Together with a little treatise of the same author, giving practical rules for fountains, or jets d'eau. By J.T. Desaguliers ... By whom are added, several annotations for explaining the doubtful places.

Date

1718

Miscellaneous (Chemistry)

Date

1840-1868

Reference

MS.2580

Part of

Graham, Thomas (1805-1869)

Nova, et amænior de admirando fontivm genio (ex abditas natvræ clavstris, in orbis lvcem emanante) philosophia ... Perenne flvere ivssa / avctore Iacobo I. W. Dobrzenski ...; opvscvlvm quod non solum curiosis ingenijs ob plurimas & nouas hydraulicas machinas æri delicatissimè incisas voluptatem adfert, sed & philosophos exoticis quibusdam erudit discursibus, & mathematicis campum aperit alias plures, & ingeniosiores excogitandi inuentiones.

Date

1659

Morton, Charles (1627-1698) & others

Date

1694

Reference

MS.3638

Della misura dell'acque correnti / di Benedetto Castelli.

Date

1660

De Réaumur, René Antoine Ferchault (1683-1757), French natural philosopher and entomologist, inventor of the thermometer

Date

1732-1756

Reference

MS.7447

Collectanea: Anatomy & Physiology.

Date

c. 1755-c. 1920

Reference

MS.1717

The motion of water, and other fluids. Being a treatise of hydrostaticks. Written originally in French, by the late Monsieur Marriotte, Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris. Divided into Five Parts, and Translated into English. Together with a little treatise of the same author, giving practical rules for fountains, or Jets d' Eau. By J.T. Desaguliers, M. A. F. R. S. Chaplain to the Right Honourable James Earl of Caernarvon. By whom are added, Several Annotations for Explaining the doubtful Places.

Date

MDCCXVIII. [1718]

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. Containing in General A Physico-Mechanical Enquiry into the Original and Rise of Springs, and of all the Hypotheses relating thereto; as also the Principles of Water-Works, and the Draughts and Descriptions of some of the best Engines for raising and distributing Water, for the Supply of Country Seats, Cities, Towns corporate, &c. Deduc'd from the Theory of Archimedes, Gallileo, Torricelli, Boyle, Wallis, Plot, Hook, Marriotte, Desaguliers, Derham, Hawksbee, and others. Reduc'd to Practice by Vitruvius, Bockler, de Caus, and other Architects amongst the ancient Romans, Italians, French, Flemmings, and Dutch, and much improv'd by later Practice and Experience. Illustrated and Explain'd by Sixty Copper Cuts, done by the best Hands, of the Principles which tend to the Explanation of the whole, and of rural Grotesque, and cheap Designs for Reservoirs, Cataracts and Cascades of Water, Canals, Basins, Fountains, &c. Collected from the best of the Italian and French Designs (together with some new ones of the Author's own Invention) few of which have ever appear'd in Books of Hydrostaticks, &c. In Two Volumes. By Stephen Switzer.

Date

M.DCC.XXIX. [1729]

A letter to Dr. Cheyne : containing an account of the motion of water through orifices and pipes; and an answer to Dr. Morgan's remarks on Dr. Robinson's Treatise of the animal oeconomy.

Date

1735