Micrographia - Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon by Robert Hooke
page 71 of 465 (15%)
page 71 of 465 (15%)
|
of the _fluids_, or that the _contained_ and _containing_ were of the _same
weight,_ would be _equally comprest_ into an exactly _spherical_ body (the ambient fluid _forcing equally_ against every side of it.) But supposing either a greater _gravity_ in the included, by reason whereof the parts of it being _prest_ from _A_ towards _B_, and thereby the whole put into _motion_, and that _motion_ being _hindred_ by the _resistance_ of the _subjacent_ parts of the ambient, the _globular_ Figure _ADBC_ will be _deprest_ into the _Elliptico-spherical_, _EGFH_. For the side _A_ is _detruded_ to _E_ by the _Gravity_, and _B_ to _F_ by the _resistance_ of the subjacent medium: and therefore _C_ must necessarily be thrust to _G_; and _D_ to _H_. Or else, supposing a greater _gravity_ in the _ambient_, by whose more then ordinary _pressure_ against the under side of the included globule; _B_ will be forced to _F_, and by its _resistance_ of the motion _upwards_, the side _A_ will be _deprest_ to _E_, and therefore _C_ being thrust to _G_ and _D_ to _H_; the _globular_ Figure by this means also will be made an _Elliptico-spherical_. Next if a fluid be included _partly_ with one, and _partly_ with another fluid, it will be found to be shaped _diversly_, according to the proportion of the _gravity_ and _incongruity_ of the 3 _fluids_ one to another: As in the _second Figure_, let the upper _MMM_ be _Air_, the middle _LMNO_ be common _Oyl_, the lower _OOO_ be _Water_, the _Oyl_ will be form'd, not into a _spherical_ Figure, such as is represented by the _pricked Line_, but into such a Figure as LMNO, whose side LMN will be of a flatter _Elliptical_ Figure, by reason of the great disproportion between the _Gravity_ of _Oyl_ and _Air_, and the side LOM of a rounder, because of the smaller difference between the weight of _Oyl_ and _Water_. Lastly, The _globular_ Figure will be changed, if the _ambient_ be partly _fluid_ and partly _solid_. And here the termination of the incompassed _fluid_ towards the incompassing is shap'd according to the proportion of the congruity or incongruity of the _fluids_ to the _solids_, and of the gravity and incongruity of the _fluids_ one to another. As |
|