 | Thousand notable things - 1822 - 604 pages
...exquisite way inventible, yet by several trials and much charge I have perfectly tried all these. 68. An admirable and most forcible way to drive up water...sucking it upwards, for that must be as the philosopher calleth it, infra spheeram activitatis, which is but at such a distance. But this way hath no bounder,... | |
 | William Bengo' Collyer - 1822 - 514 pages
...therefore, with extracting that article from the noble author's MS. preserved in the British Museum. " ' An admirable and most forcible way to drive up water...drawing or sucking it upwards, for that must be, as the philosophers call it, infra spharam activitatis, which is but at such a distance. But this way hath... | |
 | Charles Frederick Partington - Steam-engines - 1822 - 382 pages
...therefore, with extracting that article from the noble author's MS. preserved in the British Museum. " An admirable and most forcible way to drive up water...drawing or sucking it upwards, for that must be as the philosophers call it, infra splucram activitatis, which is but at such a distance. But this way hath... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1822 - 722 pages
...therefore, with extracting that article from the noble author's MSS. preserved in the British Museum. *' An admirable and most forcible way to drive up water...not by drawing or sucking it upwards, for that must he as the philosophers call it, infra sphteram aclivifatis, which is but at such a distance. But this... | |
 | Robert Stuart - Steam-engines - 1824 - 334 pages
...the Steam Engine. It is in these words : — " I have invented an admirable and forcible way to draw up water by fire ; not by drawing or sucking it upwards, for that must be, as the philosopher terms it, infra sphceram activitatis, which is but at such a distance ; but this way hath no bounder,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1825 - 576 pages
...of the following four ' Inventions,' Nos. 68, 98, 99, and 100, which are as under: — No. LXVIII. ' An admirable and most forcible way to drive up water...sucking it upwards, for that must be, as the philosopher calleth it, infra splixram activitatis, which is but at such a distance. But this way hath no bounder,... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1825 - 490 pages
...considered to rest. It is as follows : •• I have invented an admirable and most forcible way to draw up water by fire ; not by drawing or sucking it upwards, for that must be, as the philosopher calleth it, infra sphaeram activitatis, (within the sphere of its activity?) which is but at such a... | |
 | Science - 1825 - 616 pages
...the pressure of the atmosphere into a vacuum) ; for the 68th article commences with these words : " An admirable and most forcible way to drive up water by fire, not by drawing nor sucking it upwards, for that must be as the philosopher calleth it, intra sphceram activitaiis,... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1825 - 486 pages
...Ibavj " perfectly tried all these." 6H. An ailnvrnble and most forcible way to drive up water by lire, not by drawing or sucking it upwards, for that must be, as the philosopher calleth it, infra spkcsram acticitatis, which is but at such a distance. But this way hath no bounder,... | |
 | Charles Frederick Partington - Steam-engines - 1826 - 202 pages
...explained in his own words. Mr. Partington here read the 68th Article of the Century of Inventions as follows : " An admirable and most forcible way...sucking it upwards, for that must be, as the philosopher calleth it, infra gphwram activitat'a, which is but at such a distance. But this way hath no bounder,... | |
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An admirable and most forcible way to drive up water by fire, not by drawing or sucking it upwards, for that must be as the philosopher calleth it, infra spheeram activitatis, which is but at such a distance. But this way hath no bounder, if the vessels... 
