A 



JOURNAL 



OF 



NATURAL PHILOSOPHY, CHEMISTRY, 



AND 



THE ARTS. 



OCTOBER, 1309. 



ARTICLE I. 



Further Application of a Series to the Correction of the Height 

 of the Barometer. 



I 



To Mr. NICHOLSON. 

 SIR, 



N calculating a table of the depression of the mereury in Continuation 

 the tube of a barometer, produced by the effect of capillary of a former s«- 

 attraetion, I have found it necessary to determine a greater 

 number of the coefficients of the series published in your 

 twenty-second volume, p. 213. The value of f is found 



' 21 b 7 529 b' 163 6 3 6_J 



Ub + Tm~ + 1920m a + 57600m 3 + 3686400 ro*'" and gt 



if I have computed correctly, is equal to 42 b 11 + 



24 m 



129721 b 7 983 b s 5197 b 3 b_ 



"*" 69120 m* 23040 m 3 33177600 m 4 530841600 m s " 

 Here it may be observed, that the numerical coefficients of 



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