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History of the Barometer Book

History of the Barometer
History of the Barometer, For two centuries the barometer has been an indispensable laboratory instrument. Yet, despite its revolutionary influence on science, W. E. Knowles Middleton here offers the first complete history of the barometer as a scientific tool.
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  • History of the Barometer
  • Written by author W. E. Knowles Middleton
  • Published by The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002/05/30
  • For two centuries the barometer has been an indispensable laboratory instrument. Yet, despite its revolutionary influence on science, W. E. Knowles Middleton here offers the first complete history of the barometer as a scientific tool. Middleton relies
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Preface
Pt. I The Scientific Background 1
Ch. 1 The Prehistory of the Barometer 3
Ch. 2 The Torricellian Experiment 19
Ch. 3 The "Extraordinary Effervescence" 33
Ch. 4 Seventeenth-Century Experiments and Speculations 55
Pt. II The Mercury Barometer as an Instrument 83
Ch. 5 A General Survey 85
Ch. 6 The Expansion of the Scale 87
Ch. 7 The Search for Portability 132
Ch. 8 The Corrections to the Mercury Barometer 172
Ch. 9 The Improvement of Accuracy 195
Ch. 10 Barometers of High Accuracy 261
Ch. 11 Mercury Barographs and Related Apparatus 285
Ch. 12 The Mercury Barometer in North America 338
Ch. 13 Luminescence in the Barometer 354
Pt. III Barometers Other Than Mercury Barometers 361
Ch. 14 Other Liquid Barometers 363
Ch. 15 Air Barometers and Related Apparatus 373
Ch. 16 Dead-Weight and Elastic Barometers 396
App List of the More Important or Interesting Barometers Examined 445
Index 467


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