Elements of Natural Philosophy
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The limits of an elementary work do not permit us to pre- sent any thing more than the fundamental principles of hydraulics. The application of these principles to the great variety of hydraulic engines belongs to the science of machines.
SECTION V.
AERIFORM BODIES.
CHAPTER XXVII.
Elastic Fluids in General.
278. IT was formerly supposed that atmospheric air was the only elastic fluid in nature. Modern chemistry has taught us that there are many of these fluids to which we give the name of airs ...or gases. The examination of gases evidently belongs to chemical philosophy ; and accordingly we shall only present those views of the subject which are indispensable to the student of mechanical philosophy.
Atmospheric Air.
279. It is principally from an exact observation of what takes place in combustion, that we learn that air is not a simple substance, as was formerly believed ; but a mixture of two gases, oxygen and azote, nearly in the ratio of 1 to 3. * These are at least the essen- * More exactly a volume of atmospheric air equal to 1 contains 0, 21 of oxygen ; the rest is a mixture not yet exactly known, of azote and carbonic acid, perhaps also of some other gases.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
The limits of an elementary work do not permit us to pre- sent any thing more than the fundamental principles of hydraulics. The application of these principles to the great variety of hydraulic engines belongs to the science of machines.
SECTION V.
AERIFORM BODIES.
CHAPTER XXVII.
Elastic Fluids in General.
278. IT was formerly supposed that atmospheric air was the only elastic fluid in nature. Modern chemistry has taught us that there are many of these fluids to which we give the name of airs ...or gases. The examination of gases evidently belongs to chemical philosophy ; and accordingly we shall only present those views of the subject which are indispensable to the student of mechanical philosophy.
Atmospheric Air.
279. It is principally from an exact observation of what takes place in combustion, that we learn that air is not a simple substance, as was formerly believed ; but a mixture of two gases, oxygen and azote, nearly in the ratio of 1 to 3. * These are at least the essen- * More exactly a volume of atmospheric air equal to 1 contains 0, 21 of oxygen ; the rest is a mixture not yet exactly known, of azote and carbonic acid, perhaps also of some other gases.
What to read after Elements of Natural Philosophy?
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