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Excerpt from 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
T 0' go on with our learned Author, This Art is not only fpeculative, but pra�lical, the Propofiti ons belonging to it being very ufeful in Navigati on, (and that whereby, the Burthen Of every Ship of fuch and fach Dimenfions is known) but alfo in all other Arts and Sciences, where Enquiry is made ih to the Gravities and Magnitudes Of different Bodies; and it is alfo poifible, to make the Art Of Hydrofla cy to be varioufly ufeful to all Profeifors of Medi cine and Chymiflry, as that learned Author has de moni'trated, in a mof't curious Treatife of his, enti ruled, Medicina Hydrofiatica, 65 c. To which I refer my Phyiical Reader. And if the Study of, Hydro fiaricks is fo ufeful in the Materia Medica, and to all Dealers in Medicine, (0 it is no lefs ufeful to thofe whofe Office obliges them to the Practice Of the Medi ca interna itfelf; becaufe, ' according to the excellent Boerhaaqze (in hiswell ete Method Of fludying Phyfick) a Phyfician ought to be well acquainted with all the Laws Of Motion, with Staticks, Hydrollaticks, and Hydrau licks, and the Properties Of all Fluids, of which more by and by. To proceed to Vegetation, the Rifing and Afcent 'of the Sap and Other Liquors in Trees and Capillary Tubes, is not to be accounted for any Other Way, than by Hydrof'taticks and to fo great a Pitch did fome Of the Ancients carry this Notion, that they fuppos'd (as Backler has it) that they fliould mile of the Joys of Heaven, as thro' a Syphon, of which more hereafter. 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.
