Excerpt from Encyclopaedia Britannica, or a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, Vol. 9 of 18: Constructed on a Plan, by Which the Different Sciences and Arts Are Digested Into the Form of Distinct Treatises or Systems Take out the fmall tube, and let the water run out of it then it will be filled with air. Stop its upper end with the cork C, and it will be full of air all be low the cork: this done, plunge it again to the bot tom of the water in the great tube, and you will fee the water rife up in it to the height E. Which them that the air is a body, otherwife it could not hinder the water from rifing up to the fame height as it did before, namely, to A and in lo doing, it drove the air out at the top; but now the air is confined by the cork C: And it alfo (hows that the air is a comprefliblc body; for if it were not fo, a drop of water could not enter into the tube. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.