The Works Of Francis Bacon Vol 4 Baron Of Verulam Viscount St Albans And Lord High Chancellor Of England Classic Reprint

Author : James Spedding
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781440040726
Total Pages : 492 pages
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Download or read book The Works of Francis Bacon, Vol. 4: Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Albans, and Lord High Chancellor of England (Classic Reprint) written by James Spedding and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-03 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Works of Francis Bacon, Vol. 4: Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Albans, and Lord High Chancellor of England This table of specific gravities is the only collection of quantitative experimental results that we find in Bacon's works. Few experiments of the same kind had previously been made. The method which Bacon employed enables us to form some opinion as to the amount of his acquaintance with mathematical physics. The first table of specific gravities was constructed by Marinus Ghetaldus, whose Archimedes Promotus was published in 1603. It contains only twelve substances, and is therefore, so far as the number of experiments is concerned, much inferior to Bacon's. But on the other hand Ghetaldus is the author of the method of finding specific gravities which, with certain modifications and corrections, has remained in use to the present day, whereas no one, probably, has attempted to find specific gravities by Bacons process. The principle of Ghetaldu's method consists in weighing the substance which is to be examined in air and in water, and thus ascertaining the weight of the water which it displaces. By this method the comparison of the densities of different substances is made to depend on the first principles of hydrostatics. The often-told storv of Archimedes and Hiero's crown contains the germ of the same method; and it is probably from this that Ghetaldus took the title of his book. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.