Archimedes Texts

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to acknowledge the Assistance, and En
couragement the Report of his perfor
mances hath afforded me.

But as few inventions happen to be at
first so compleat, as not to be either ble
mishd with some deficiencies needful to be
remedy'd, or otherwise capable of im
provement: so when the Engine we
have been speaking of, comes to be more
attentively consider'd, there will appear
two very considerable things to be de
sir'd in it. For first, the Wind-Pump (as
some body not improperly calls it) is so
contriv'd, that to evacuate the Vessel
there is requir'd the continual labor of
two strong men for divers hours. And
next (which is an imperfection of much
greater moment) the Receiver, or Glass
to be empty'd, consisting of one entire
and uninterrupted Globe and Neck of
Glass; the whole Engine is so made, that
things cannot be convey'd into it, where
on to try Experiments: So that there
seems but little (if any thing) more to be
expected from it, then those very few
Phænomena that have been already ob
serv'd by the Author, and Recorded by
Schottus. Wherefore to remedy these
Inconveniences, I put both Mr. G.