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Is it a surprise that into the vessel, in which the mercury has no inclination and no repugnance, not even the slightest, to being there, it should enter and should rise in a column high enough to make equilibrium with the weight of the external air which forces it up?

Living submerged at the bottom of an ocean of air.

The Geometer has the special privilege to carry out, by abstraction, all constructions by means of the intellect.

The Geometer has the special privilege to carry out, by abstraction, all constructions by means of the intellect. Who, then, would wish to prevent me from freely considering figures hanging on a balance imagined to be at an infinite distance beyond the confines of the world?

winds are produced by differences of air temperature, and hence density, between two regions of earth.