Research Catalog

Title

The physical treatises of Pascal: the equilibrium of liquids and the weight of the mass of the air, translated by I.H.B. and A.G.H. Spiers, with an introduction and notes by Frederick Barry.

Author

Pascal, Blaise, 1623-1662.

Publication

New York, Columbia University Press, 1937.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Barry, Frederick, 1876-1943.
• Spiers, I.H.B. (Isidore Henry Bowles)
• Spiers, Alexander Guy Holborn.
• Stevin, Simon, 1548-1620.
• Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642.
• Torricelli, Evangelista, 1608-1647.

Description

xxviii, 181 p. illus., 3 fold. pl., diagrs.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Records of civilization, sources and studies... No. XXVIII

Subjects

• Air
• Atmospheric pressure
• Hydrostatics

Contents

A treatise on the equilibrium of liquids.--Treatise on the weight of the mass of the air.--Fragments of other works by Pascal.--Experiments on the equilibrium of fluids.--Appendices: Fourth book of statics, by Simon Stevin. Fifth book of statics, by Simon Stevin. Galileo's remarks on nature's abhorrence of a vacuum. Torricelli's letters on the pressure of the atmosphere.-- Bibliographical note (p. [171]-173)

Call Number

PAG (Pascal, B. Physical treatises of Pascal)

LCCN

38000410

OCLC

1561720

Author

Pascal, Blaise, 1623-1662.

Title

The physical treatises of Pascal: the equilibrium of liquids and the weight of the mass of the air, translated by I.H.B. and A.G.H. Spiers, with an introduction and notes by Frederick Barry.

Imprint

New York, Columbia University Press, 1937.

Series

Records of civilization, sources and studies... No. XXVIII

Added Author

Barry, Frederick, 1876-1943.

Spiers, I.H.B. (Isidore Henry Bowles) Translator

Spiers, Alexander Guy Holborn.

Stevin, Simon, 1548-1620.

Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642.

Torricelli, Evangelista, 1608-1647.

Research Call Number

PAG (Pascal, B. Physical treatises of Pascal)