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Title: Vegetable staticks, or, An account of some statical experiments on the sap in vegetables : being an essay towards a natural history of vegetation : Also, a specimen of an attempt to analyse the air, by a great variety of chymio-statical experiments, which were read at several meetings before the Royal Society
Year: 1727 (1720s)
Authors: Hales, Stephen, 1677-1761 Gribelin, Simon, 1661 or 2-1733, engraver Royal Society (Great Britain) Burndy Library, donor. DSI
Subjects: Plant physiology Air
Publisher: London : Printed for W. and J. Innys ... and T. Woodward ...
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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with that of common water 5 nordid I find many air bubbles in it, when placedin the exhaufted receiver, which I expe&edto have found 5 but when referved in openviols, it (links fooner than common water 5an argument that it is not pure water, but hasfome heterogeneous mixtures with it. I put alfo a large Sun-flower full blown,and as it was growing, into the head of aglafs-ftill, and put its roftrum into a bottle,by which means there diftilled a good quan-tity of liquor into the bottle. It will bevery eafy in the fame manner to coiled): theperfpirations of fweetfcented Flowers, thothe liquor will not long retain its gratefulodor, but ftink in few days. This experiment would be very properto beg:in the learned Boerhaaves clear andvery rational chymical proceffes with, as be-ing a degree more fimple than his firft pro-cefs, the diftillation in a cold ftill : For thisis undifturbed nature s own method of diftil-ln p<g- Experiment XVIIL In order to find out what flores of moi- fture
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Vegetable Staticks. j i fture nature had provided in the earth, (a-gainft the dry fummer feafon,) that mightanfwer this great expence of it, which is foneceflfary for the production and fupport ofvegetables. July 31. 1724. I dug up a cubick foot ofearth in an alley, which was very little tram-pled on 5 it weighed (after deducting theweight of the containing veffel) 104 pounds-J- 4 ounces -f- f. A cubick foot of waterweighs 59 -)- i, which is little more than halfthe fpecifick gravity of earth. This was adry feafon, with a mixture of fome few fhow-ers, fo that the grafs-plat adjoyning was notburnt up. At the fame time I dug up another cu-bick foot of earth, from the bottom of theformer, it weighed 106 pound -J- 6 ounces? 4-f- I dug up alfo a third cubick foot of earth,-at the bottom of the two former, it weighedin pounds -J- f. Thefe three feet depth were a good brickearth, next to which was gravel, in whichat 2 feet depth, viz. 5 feet below the fur-face of the earth, the fprings did t

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