The history of the barometer.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins Press
Published: 1964
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 489
Subjects: Barometers -- History.
Description: 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.
Notes: Bibliographical footnotes.
Table of contents: label: I.
title: THE SCIENTIFIC BACKGROUND; label: 1.
title: The prehistory of the barometer.
pagenum: 3; label: 2.
title: The Torricellian experiment.
pagenum: 19; label: 3.
title: The "extraordinary effervescence".
pagenum: 33; label: 4.
title: Seventeenth-century experiments and speculations.
pagenum: 55; label: II.
title: THE MERCURY BAROMETER AS AN INSTRUMENT; label: 5.
title: A general survey.
pagenum: 85; label: 6.
title: The expansion of the scale.
pagenum: 87; label: 7.
title: The search for portability.
pagenum: 132; label: 8.
title: The corrections to the mercury barometer,
pagenum: 172; label: 9.
title: The improvement of the accuracy.
pagenum: 195; label: 10.
title: Barometers of high accuracy.
pagenum: 261; label: 11.
title: Mercury barographs and related apparatus.
pagenum: 285; label: 12.
title: The mercury barometer in North America.
pagenum: 338; label: 13.
title: Luminsecence in the barometer.
pagenum: 354; label: III.
title: BAROMETERS OTHER THAN MERCURY BAROMETERS; label: 14.
title: Other liquid barometers.
pagenum: 363; label: 15.
title: Air barometers and related apparatus.
pagenum: 373; label: 16.
title: Dead-weight and elastic barometers.
pagenum: 396; label: Appendix:
title: List of the more important or interesting barometers examined.
pagenum: 445; title: Index.
pagenum: 467