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A60282	Natural philosophy improven by new experiments touching the mercurial weather-glass, the hygroscope, eclipsis, conjunctions of Saturn and Jupiter, by new experiments, touching the pressure of fluids, the diving-bell, and all the curiosities thereof : to which is added some new observations, and experiments, lately made of several kinds : together with a true relation of an evil spirit, which troubled a mans family for many days : lastly, there is a large discourse anent coal, coal-sinks, dipps, risings, and streeks of coal, levels running of mines, gaes, dykes, damps, and wild-fire / by G.S.	Sinclair, George, d. 1696.	1683 (1683)	Wing S3855; ESTC R15622	205,371	320

NATVRAL PHILOSOPHY Improven by NEW EXPERIMENTS TOUCHING The Mercurial Weather-Glass the Hygroscope Eclipsis Conjunctions of Saturn and Jupiter BY NEW EXPERIMENTS Touching the Pressure of Fluids the Diving-Bell and all the curiosities thereof To which is added Some New Observations and Experiments lately made of several kinds TOGETHER With a true RELATION of an Evil Spirit which troubled a Mans Family for many days LASTLY There is a large DISCOURSE anent Coal ●oal-sinks Dipps Risings and Streeks of Coal Levels Running of Mines Gals Dykes Damps and Wild-fire By G. S. Ars longa vita brevis Printed in the Year 1683. And are to be sold by Gideon Schaw Bookseller at the Sign of the Bible in the Parliament-Closs in Edinburgh To the Right Honourable S r. JAMES FLEMING Lord Provost of EDINBURGH George Drumond David Lindsey Iames Nicolson and GEORGE SINCLAR Bailiffs Archibald Hamilton Dean of Gild Thomas Young Thesaurer William Borthwick Deacon Conveener and remanent Members of the Honourable Council of the said Burgh In all Humility offers and didicates this Philosophical Tranasaction GEORGE SINCLAR Professor of Philosophy and Mathematicks May it please Your Lordship and the Honourable Senate I Present you with a mean Oblation less than the Widows Mite but with a willing mind 'T is all I can afford at present Farre li●abit qui non habet thus Who wants Frankincense must sacrifice with Bear-meal I have sometimes offered more to others who were not so deserving I still remember how kindly the Council treated me for some Years ago when I taught the Mathematicks at Edinburgh and what a singular Obligation they conferred upon me after when I was employed to search out a well which by good Providence I lighted upon which is now a Well-spring of Happiness to the Good-Town I made several Observations with a most accurate and exact Level but especially one from the highest Ground in the Castle in the Evening towards the Fountain by the help of a Light there on the 29. of May 1674. which gave infallible assurance to the Magistrates that the Source was 200. Foot higher than the Weigh-house and great encouragement to the Council to begin the Work It is registrate in Scripture as one of the great Acts of Hezekiah that he made a Cistern and a Condu●t and brought Water into the City of Jerusalem This work will be extant among the Annals and Chronicles of the City of things done from Year to Year to all Generations which is the glory also of the succeeding Magistrates But your wisdom and prudence in governing the City and composing all Differences and setling all Matters every day so happily is of far greater moment This Transaction explains the Weather-Glass and Hygroscope which are in great esteem even among Kings and Princes His Royal Highness put no small value upon that which I presented to Him Non equidem tali me dignor honore I now crave pardon that I have adventured to prefix your Names to the Frontispice of this mean Pamphlet between which and your incomparable Merits there is no proportion All I can do is to pray that your Lordship and Council may live to be as you are the glory and credit of the Place and that you may slowly yet surely exchange at last this Mortality with Immortal Life This I fervently wish while I am Your Honours most humble and much obliged Servant GEORGE SINCLAR Leith Ianuary 9. 1683. The Explanation of the Weather-Glass I Have set down the Theory of the Weather after this manner In the first and upmost Station thirty Inch and a half above the Cistern is Long Fair or Most pleasant Weather as the Poet sings Totus ille dies quin ascentur ab illo Exactum ad mensem pluvia ventisque carebunt This day and all which after it remain F●r th●●ty day● sha●l want both Wind and Rain The Metal being at this height which I rather find to be in Winter than in Summer the Heavens are clear yet sometimes covered with dry and gray Clouds but not the least appearance of Rain Nothing for several days after but setled calm Weather as dry and hard Frost in Winter with a clear Sky sometimes the Air most pure and clear without Frost Here it was upon Thursday October 26. 'T is seldom so high because we in this Countrey have not often a most pure and clear Air as in France and other parts of the World If the Metal ascend to this Station it is an evident token that the Glass is right mounted and adjusted I call the second Station which is half an Inch lower Fair or Dry and Fair. ●ace serenato clar●m juhat emicat ax P●●gatusque nitet di●●ussis ●u●ibus ●●ther Behold a Ray tha● 〈◊〉 breaks forth from se●●n● Hea●en And purged Sky doth shine all Cloud 〈◊〉 that 's been The Quick-silver being at this Station the Weather is good but not so setled especially in the Winter-season I have oftentimes observed a small thin showre of Rain to fall for some Hours together from the lowest Region of the Air as a thick Dew or Mist but immediatly after the Day became Clear and Fair the Air being under a strong disposition to be so The third Station half an Inch lower is Changeable sometimes Fair sometimes Foul sometimes Frost sometimes Thaw sometimes Sleet sometimes Snow sometimes Wind sometimes Calm Nun● pluit clarus nune Iupiter aethere surgit Sometimes ●oul Jove doth wring the Clouds for Rain Sometimes fair Jove appears in Heaven again The fourth Station is Rain or Rainy Weather not that it Rains always but that there is a strong inclination in the Air to be Rain Madidl● Notus evolat all● Terribilem pleca tectus caligine vultum Barba gravis nimbi● can●s ●uit unda capillis Out flyes the South with dropping Wing● who shrouds His 〈◊〉 aspect in the pitchy 〈◊〉 His white● air streams his bea●● b●g ●●●oln with Shor●● M●●ls bi●● hi● bro● Rain from his boso● pu●●●es I call the fifth Station Much Rain or Very Foul as in the Summer or Winter-time when Rain is accompanied with strong S. W. and W. Winds This is bad Weather indeed both by Sea and Land Et den●i ●unduntur ●● aethere n●●bl Ecce cadunt ●argi reselusia nubibu● imbre● Inquetreom credas totum descendere coeluth 〈◊〉 of Rain are poured from the Heaven Waich●●ken Phenus and his peir●ing Beams 〈…〉 great 〈◊〉 did fall Some thought the Heavens to Sea were tu●bled all To this Station did the Mercury fall down on Monday November 6. and Sunday night November 19 being two Inch lower than October 26. The sixth Station is Stormy the worst of Weather in this Country Tum mihi ●ae●ule●● supra caput astitit imber N●ctem Hyememque ●erens inhorruit und● tenebris A purpur● showre did Canopy my head Dark Winter came and waves grew black indeed I have subjoyned in the last place Tempests or Hirricanos which do not fall out in this Country They are lively described by the

Poet. Acvent● velut agmine f●cto Qua data por●●●unt terras turbine per●●●nt Incubuere mari to●●mque a sell●us im●s Una Eu●u●que No●●sque en●nt cre●erque procel●●a Africus vasto● volvunt ad littora fluctus Tempect●●●ine more ●urit ton●●●●que tren●seunt Ardua terra●um ●●●pique littora circum Winds at his mutinous ●ands Force their own way and thunder through the strands They take the Sea Eurus and Notus raves And stormy Africus from deepest c●ves When Temp●storage and Joves great Cannons rea● The Mountains quake the Plains and every Shoar The first Rule is the further up the Metal goes the Weather inclines to be the Fairer and the further it falls down it inclines to be the Fouler Secondly When it is heighest Fair Weather is universal when it is lowest Foul Weather is universal Thirdly 'T is not so much Fair or Foul Weather actually which influences the Quick-silver as it is the disposition and inclination of the Weather to be Fair or Foul. Note That N. E. and E. Winds even with Ra●n do raise the Mercury and keep it up sometimes beyond ordinary And as it shews the nature of the Weather so it foretells which is the great excellency of it sometimes a day sometimes two sometimes three or four before any change of Weather come The Metal rises and falls quickly when Fair or Foul Weather is nigh at hand It doth not so much foretel Winds as it is actually influenced by them when they blow in causing the Metal subside and fall down 'T is said that the Ladies and Gentle-women at London do Apparel themselves in the Morning by the Weather-Glass Whatever be in this 't is certain that when a Man riseth in the Morning he may know infallibly what sort of Weather will fall out ere Night It is not possible to make it unerring unless it be mounted and set up by a skilful Hand which few or none can do The inclosed Weather-Glasses are Ten Dallers the open ones Thirty Shillings which are as true None from Abroad are so accurately made Neither any such are sold at so easie a rate They may be transported and carried to any part of the Country and there set up by my Directions The Explanation of the Hygroscope THis second is a curious Invention which I call the Hygroscope The The name is made up of two Greek words Hygros Wet and Scopeo to view or consider because we know by it the several degrees of moisture and dryness in the Air. It is mean to look upon being but the Awin and Beard of a Grain of Oats It is Twisted and Twined by Nature as the Lute String or a Silk Cord is twined by Art It is secured within a round Box whose inside is divided into 24. equal parts There is affixed to the top of it a small slender Glass-Index which goes about with the Awin as it is altered with the moisture or dryness of the Air. The motion is direct or right about following the course of the Sun with moisture and retrograde or left about with dryness It is likewise stationary or standing when the Air is setled as to wetness or dryness It is of all of all things in the Universe so far as I know most affected and sensible of humidity and s●●city Many curious Philosophical Questions do arise from its several Operations which would trouble Oedipus himself to resolve I have found the Index from Wet Air in extremity to Dry Air in extremity make six Revolutions For this cause I have contrived a little Broad with six Circles upon it or rather Spirals divided equally into 24. parts as the inside of the Box is by the help of which a Man may trace the motion of it all the Year over most easily whether it be Direct or Retrograde You will find these advantages by it Wet Air in extremity Dry Air in extremity Air equally moist and dry Wet Air Dry Air. It discovers the least difference of Air between one Room and another It is much influenced with Winds from the North especially in Frost which make it Retrograde and with Winds from the South which make it Direct and move right about In a Years time it makes several Revolutions The motion is most sensible for sometimes in one Night it will alter 90. Degrees o● the fourth part of a Circle It not only shews the present temperament of the Air which is a great advantage but foretels Nay which is admirable I have found it sometimes foretel Fair Weather when it was actually Raining It keeps a correspondence with the Weather-Glass There is great difficulty to know what Revolution it is under from Wet Air in extremity or from Dry Air in extremity for fixing the Brass-Pin in its own proper Circle The Husk or Hool of the Mouse-Pea as we call it or the Wild Vetch will make a Hygroscope but it is somewhat dull and slow and goes not so oft about yet very sensible of the Wetness and Dryness of the Air. When the Index of the Hygroscope is altered by the Weather it keeps not a continued motion but sometimes moves backward and sometimes forward yet at length perfects its course right about in so many Months and returns again in so many Among the many difficulties which occur this is one What is the reason why the Awin goes alwayes right about with Moisture and left about with Dryness To say that it is so ordered by Nature is ridiculous The same difficulty we find in the Shells of Snails whose Screw and Spiral line goes right about with the Sun and in the Shells of Sea-Snails commonly called Buckies Some affirm that upon the South of the Line the Shells of these Creatures are screwed left about which is worthy of observation 'T is easie to give the reason why a Lute String turns about such a way with Moisture because while it was twined by the Artist the Wheel or Spindle went such a way about wherewith he twisted it But who can say the like of the Awin seing the great Artist is GOD and Nature whose working and manner of working is unknown to us 〈◊〉 be asked What way goes about the Hool of the Wild Vetch I answer which is a notable Speculation The one Hool goes right about with the Sun by Moisture as the Awin doth and consequently left about with Dryness But the other goes right about with Dryness and left about with Moisture contrary to the motion of its fellow Hool This is seen sensibly by holding them nigh the Fire The same holds true in the two Hools of the Right Pea-cod I suppose that the Hools of Brom-seed may do the like Another Experiment I made with the Hygroscope in placing it within the Receiver of the Air-pump At the very first Exsuction of the Air the Index moved left about most sensibly and by the several Exsuctions which were made one after another it advanced half a Circle about It had been easie to have made it

about 20 or 24 ounces and lay it upon the said piece of Wood but because it cannot well ly without falling off therefore nail upon the ends and the sides of the Timber four pieces of Sticks on each end one and on each side one as Ledgets for keeping the Bullet from falling off All things being thus ordered draw up the piece of Wood towards the one side of the Room by which means losing its horizontal position it will ly declining-wise like the roof of an house In this position lay the Iron Bullet in the upmost end of it and then let them both pass from your fingers the one end of the Wood going foremost and you will find it swing towards the other side of the house and return again as a Pendulum This motion if the Wood be well guided in its vibrations will last perpetually because in its moving down the Bullet is hurled from the one end of the Wood to the other and hits it so smartly that it begets in it an impulse whereby it is carried farder up than it would be without it By this means the vibrations get not liberty to diminish but all of them are kept of the same length In the second vibration the same Bullet is hurled back again to the other end and hiting it with all its weight creats a second impulse wherewith the Wood is carried as far up as the point it was first demitted from Though this may seem a pretty device to please the fancy that 's many times deceived while things are presented to it by way of speculation yet upon tryal and experience there will be found an unspeakeable difficulty and it 's such an one that a man would not readily think upon I said that when the Wood was let go and was in passing down the Bullet in it would hurl down and hit the oppsite end and beget an impulse but there is no such thing for verily though the Bullet be laid upon a very declining plain Board whereupon no man could imagine a round body could ly yet all the time the Board is in swinging from the one side of the Chamber to the other and consequently sometimes under an horizontal and somtimes under an declining position the Bullet lies dead in the place where you first placed it This Observation is not so much for a perpetual motion as for finding out the reason of this pretty Phenomenon namely what 's the cause why the Bullet that cannot ly upon a reclining Board while it 's without motion shall now ly upon it while it 's under motion What is more difficult and nice to ly upon any thing that declines from a levell than Quick-silver yet lay never so much of it upon this Board while it is swinging it shall ly dead and without motion But no sooner you stop the motion of the wood but assoon the Bullet or the Quick-silver is hurled either this way or that way OBSERVATION XII I Find it mentioned by some learned persons that when a Ship is under Sail if a stone be demitted from the top of the Mast it will move down in a line parallel with it and fall at the root Some might think it ought not to fall directly above the place it hang over but rather some distance behind seing the Ship hath advanced so much bounds in the time wherein the stone is coming down Likewise while a Ship is under Sail let a man throw up a stone never so high and never so perpendicular as to his apprehension yet it will fall down directly upon his head again notwithstanding that the Ship hath run perhaps her own length in the time while the stone was ascending and descending This experiment I find to hold true which may be easily tryed especially when a man is carried in a Boat upon smooth Water drawn by a horse as is done in some places abroad Let him therefore throw up a little Stone or any heavy Body and he will find it descend just upon his head notwithstanding that the Horse that draggs the Boat be under a gallop and by this means hath advanced ten or twelve paces in the time Or while the Boat is thus running let a man throw a stone towards the brink of the VVater in this case he shall not hit the place he aimed at but some other place more forward This lets us see that when a Gun is fired in a Ship under Sail the Bullet cannot hit the place it was directed to Neither can a man riding with a full Career and shooting a Pistol hit the person he aims at but must surely miss him notwithstanding that though in the very instant of time wherein he fires the mouth of the Pistol was most justly directed For remedy whereof allowance must be granted in the aiming at the mark VVhile a man throws up a stone in a Ship under Sail it must receive two distinct impulses one from the hand whereby it is carried upward the other from the Ship whereby it is carried forward By this means the stone in going up and coming down cannot describe a perpendicular but a crooked Line either a Parabola or a Line very like unto it Neither can it describe a perpendicular Line in coming down from the top of the Mast though in appearance it seem to do so but a crooked one which in effect must be the half of that which it describes in going up and coming down For this same cause a stone thrown horizontally or towards the brink of the VVater must describe a crooked Line also And a Pistol Bullet shot while a man is riding at a full Carreer must describe a Line of the same kind Note that a man walking from the Stern of a Ship to the Head walks a longer way than in walking from the Head to the Stern Secondly a man may walk from the Head to the Stern and yet not change his place 'T is observable that a man under board will not perceive whether the Ship be sailing or not and cannot know when her Head goes about And it is strange that when a man is inclosed in a Hogs-head though he have light with him yet let him be never so oft whirled about he shall not know whether he be going about or not OBSERVATION XIII I Found in a Philosophical transaction lately Printed that Decemb. 13. 1669 one Doctor Beal found the Mercury in the Baroscope never to be so high as it was then That same very day I found the hight of it 29 inches and nine ten parts which I never observed before And though the day here was dark and the Heavens cove●ed with Clouds yet no rain for many dayes followed but much dryness and fair weather On Saturday night March 26 1670 I found the altitude no more than 27 and nine ten parts This night was exceeding windy with a great rain On February 1. 1671. I found the altitude 30 inches and the Heavens most clear But in the most part of May