AMUSING DISSERTATIONS AND ENQUIRIES CONCERNING A TO THE WHOLE RANGE OF THE MATHE- The Whole treated in a pleasing and easy Manner, and adapted to the Comprehension of all who are the least initiated in those Sciences: viz. M. OZANAM, OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, &c. LATELY RECOMPOSED, AND GREATLY ENLARGED, IN A NEW EDITION, BY THE CELEBRATED M. MONTUCLA. AND NOW TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH, AND IMPROVED WITH MANY ADDITIONS AND OBSERVATIONS, BY CHARLES HUTTON, LL.D. AND F.R.S., EMERITUS PROFESSOR OF MATHEMATICS IN THE ROTAL MILITARY ACADEMY, WOOLWICH. IN FOUR VOLUMES; THE ROYAL PUBLIC WITH NEAR ONE HUNDRED COPPER PLATES VOL. IV. LONDON: PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND BROWN, PATERNOSTER-ROW; By T. Davison, Lombard-street, Whitefriars. STOR LIBRARY 1814. WWW-YORK. PROB. I. Construction of the pneumatic machine or air- PROB. III. To draw off all the liquor contained in a vessel, PROB. IV. To construct a vessel, which when filled to a certain height with any liquor, shall retain it; and which shall suffer the whole to escape, when filled with the' same liquor to a height ever so little greater BROB. V. Construction of a vessel which, while standing upright, retains the liquor it contains; but which if in- |