Excerpt from The Compressibility of Liquids Among pressure experiments the late researches of Amagat stand out by their originality and importance. One can not but admire the experimental prowess which has enabled him to penetrate legitimately into a region of pressures incomparably high without lowering his standard of accuracy. Special mention must be made of the celebrated papers of J. Willard Gribbs,2 by whom the scope of graphic method in exhibiting the thermo dynamics of fluids has been surprisingly enlarged. The terms isometric, isop'iestic, isothermal, isentropic, etc., are used in the present paper in the sense defined by Gibbs (loc. Cit., p. 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.