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Traces the development of the barometer as a scientific instrument from the experiments and controversies of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to the precision instruments of today.
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Table of Contents
I.
THE SCIENTIFIC BACKGROUND
1.
The prehistory of the barometer.
Page 3
2.
The Torricellian experiment.
Page 19
3.
The "extraordinary effervescence".
Page 33
4.
Seventeenth-century experiments and speculations.
Page 55
II.
THE MERCURY BAROMETER AS AN INSTRUMENT
5.
A general survey.
Page 85
6.
The expansion of the scale.
Page 87
7.
The search for portability.
Page 132
8.
The corrections to the mercury barometer,
Page 172
9.
The improvement of the accuracy.
Page 195
10.
Barometers of high accuracy.
Page 261
11.
Mercury barographs and related apparatus.
Page 285
12.
The mercury barometer in North America.
Page 338
13.
Luminsecence in the barometer.
Page 354
III.
BAROMETERS OTHER THAN MERCURY BAROMETERS
14.
Other liquid barometers.
Page 363
15.
Air barometers and related apparatus.
Page 373
16.
Dead-weight and elastic barometers.
Page 396
Appendix:.
List of the more important or interesting barometers examined.
Page 445
Index.
Page 467
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