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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60281	The hydrostaticks, or, The weight, force, and pressure of fluid bodies, made evident by physical, and sensible experiments together vvith some miscellany observations, the last whereof is a short history of coal, and of all the common, and proper accidents thereof, a subject never treated of before / by G.S.	Sinclair, George, d. 1696.	1672 (1672)	Wing S3854; ESTC R38925	208,492	331

THE HYDROSTATICKS OR The Weight Force and Pressure of FLUID BODIES Made evident by Physical and Sensible Experiments TOGETHER VVith some Miscellany Observations the last whereof is a short History of Coal and of all the Common and Proper Accidents thereof a Subject never treated of before By G. S. EDINBURGH Printed by George Swintoun Iames Glen and Thomas Brown Anno DOM. 1672. G. SINCLARI P. Professoris Hydrostatica EDINBURGI Ann. Dom. 1672 Intus se vasti Proteus tegit obice saxi To my very Honourable and Noble LORD ROBERT VISCOUNT of OXFUIRD LORD MACKGILL of COUSLAND c. My Noble Lord THe first application I make is for pardon that I have adventured to prefix your name to the Frontispice of this Work which in it self cannot be thought worthy of your Trust and Protection there being no proportion between the greatness of your Merit and so mean an Oblation save what flows from the Nobleness of the Subjest and the sincerity of his respects who presents it It is truly a part of Philosophy that was never much Cultivated but of late except in a more abstract and subtil way which did render it less useful but is now more improven by sensible Manifestations of the Soveraign Mistriss of Arts NATURE her self There are indeed my Lord many excellent Sciences which do merit the favour of your Lordships studies and by which your Noble Accomplishments might be more improven yet I am bold to affirm you cannot apply your Noble Mind to any part of Philosophy where you will find more Pleasure with less Pains more evidence of Reason with less Difficulty The famous Gregorio Leti was so much an admirer of your Vertues that he sheltered under your Patrociny his Vita Di Sisto quinto Pontefece Romano And if you were able to protect an envyed Italian in Italy much more may I expect full security from your Name in Scotland where your interest and relations are so considerable And if he who only look'd upon your Vertuous Mind while it was but blossoming was so much perswaded to judge none more fit to Receive Protect and Claim his Labours much more I who have seen the accomplishment of your Vertues at home I have likewise very much confidence of your Noble and Candid Disposition to admit this into your Favour and assurance of your Affection and Skill to Love it and Understand it both which are conspicuous the first in your encouragement to all Learning the other in your Capacity and Understanding to comprehend whatever you encourage Though my Lord I have been much emboldened to offer this Dedication to your Lordship upon the account of your own Heroick Vertues yet I must not pass over in silence a most special Motive which to me shall be the last sparing to express all the great Causes oblieging me so to do and that is the Memory of your VVorthy and nearest Relations who are my Lord your Father Grandfather and Great-Grand-father not only memorable for their Vertue and Learning and peculiar Endowments whereby they were thought worthy to serve their King and Countrey in Council and Honourable Courts of Iustice for these many years but for the Dignity and Antiquity of their famous Ancestours How old your Lordships Name is Buchanan testifies in the close of the Second Book of his History who writeth thus Certè Gildus vetus est in Scotia Nomen ut vetus Mackgildorum sive Mackgillorum gens indicat è cujus posteris honestae adhuc in Scotia Anglia sunt familiae That is Surely Gild is an ancient Name in Scotland as witness the old Family of Mackgilds or Mackgills of whose Posterity there are yet in Scotland and England many Families of good account And as an instance of this the same Author tells us of the Great Thane of Galloway Mackgillum Gallovidiae longè Potentissimum in the life of Mackbeth who by this Vsurper was put to death for his adherence to his Prince from whom your Lordship and your worthy Progenitors are Lineally descended and of whom Buchanan meant in the foregoing passage since our Predecessors flourisht in his time your Great-Grand-Father having then been His Majesties Advocat his Brother Lord Register Having now my Noble Lord laid before you so many considerable Motives which I humbly desire may prevail I cannot but make my next Application for Acceptance and seriously intreat this Work may be received into the Tuition of your Favour and get a full Protection from the Censorious and being enlightned with the splendor of your Name and receiving the impression of your Authority upon it may safely pass thorow the VVorld for which singular Favour I shall fervently wish to your Self and Noble Family all Prosperity and Happiness and shall think my self very happy under the Character of Edinburgh May 20. the day of your Lo. Birth and Majority 1672. My Noble Lord Your Lo. most humble and much oblieged Servant GEORGE SINCLAR TO THE READER Courteous Reader I Shall not detain thee entry with a long Preface but give a short account of what is needful to be known of the Cause Occasion and Matter of the following Treatise After the publication of my last Piece about the Weight and Pressure of the Air I found it needful to treat of the Pressure of the Water because of the near relation between the two the operations and effects of both depending almost upon the same Principles and Causes And that there are many things which cannot throughly be understood of the Pressure of the Air without the knowledge of the Pressure of the Water therefore to make the first the more evident I have spoken of the second the effects and operations of Hydrostatical Experiments being more conspicuous and sensible then the effects and operations of the other The Occasion was some spare time I had now and then for making some Trials part whereof are published here the rest being rather some productions of Reason attentively exercised on that Subject which notwithstanding may be called Experiments though never actually tried nor haply can be because of some accidental impediments yet supposing they were I make it evident that such and such Phenomena would follow whence many necessary conclusions are inferred As for the subject matter there are first moe then thirty Theorems in order to the Pressure of Fluid Bodies as Air Water and Mercury which in effect are nothing else but so many conclusions rationally deduced from various and diverse effects of Aerostatical Hydrostatical and Hydrargyrostatical Experiments which for the most part I have tried my self There are next twenty Experiments briefly described by their own distinct Schematisms their Phenomena according to the Laws of the Hydrostaticks are salved and several new conclusions inferred A Proposal is likewise made of a more convenient Engine for Diving Here several difficulties are proposed and answered and all the obvious Phenomena of Diving explicated If the Lead which sinks the Ark be judged too weighty and big which may render it not