A letter to Dr. Cheyne : containing an account of the motion of water through orifices and pipes; and an answer to Dr. Morgan's remarks on Dr. Robinson's Treatise of the animal oeconomy.

  • Bryan Robinson
Date:
1735
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Credit: A letter to Dr. Cheyne : containing an account of the motion of water through orifices and pipes; and an answer to Dr. Morgan's remarks on Dr. Robinson's Treatise of the animal oeconomy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    E 2-0 ] was bo fucli lateral Motion, but the Water defcended only perpendicu¬ larly from A B to E F. I he Velocity therefore with which the Water flows through the Hole, is equal to the Velocity which a heavy Body would acquire in fal- ling m vacuo through a Space equal to one half of the Space For the Velocity with which the Water flows through the Hole, is to the Velocity acquired in falling m vacuo through the Space -A__ as 1 £o y'2, from Sir Jfaac Newton's Expe¬ riments : But from the Law of the Defcent of heavy Bodies in vacuOy the Velocity acquired in falling A2 H through one half of the Space-^rr-v is to the Velocity acquired in falling through the whole Space as i to /z : And therefore the Velo¬ city