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Airopaidia
Thomas Baldwin
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AIROPAIDIA:
Literal and other Errors proper to be examined, and corrected with the Pen, before the Book is read.
CHAPTER I.
Preparations for the Voyage.
SIGNS OF NEW AND SUDDEN HORIZONTAL CURRENTS.
PREPARATIONS FOR ASCENT.
ASCENT WITH 20lb. OF LEVITY.
BALLOON VERGING TO THE SEA.
OBJECTION REMOVED.
CHAPTER VIII.
OTHER AËRIAL SCENES DESCRIBED.
CHAPTER X.
CHAPTER XI.
CHAPTER XII.
CHAPTER XIII.
CHAPTER XIV.
CHAPTER XV.
BALLOON DESCENDING.
BALLOON STILL DESCENDING.
RE-ASCENT OF THE BALLOON.
BALLOON STILL RE-ASCENDING.
CHAPTER XX.
CHAPTER XXI.
BALLOON AT ITS GREATEST HEIGHT.
AIR WARMER ABOVE THAN BELOW.
BALLOON ABOVE THE INFLUENCE OF WATER.
THIRD BALLOON-IRIS
SENSATIONS ACCOMPANYING THE BALLOON.
USEFUL CONCLUSIONS.
CHAPTER XXVIII.
CHAPTER XXIX.
CHAPTER XXX.
CHAPTER XXXI.
CHAPTER XXXII.
CHAPTER XXXIII.
Rixton-Moss, Lancashire, IV. o’Clock P.M.
CHAPTER XXXV.
OF THE WEATHER, IN THE VICINITY OF CHESTER, ABOUT THE TIME OF THE EXCURSION.
ON CERTAIN APPEARANCES AT DIFFERENT ALTITUDES OF THE BALLOON.
CONJECTURES ON THE CAUSES OF THE CIRCULAR TRANSPARENCY TO A CERTAIN DISTANCE BELOW THE BALLOON, AND OF THE RED LIGHT FROM THE SEA AND RIVERS, WHEN SEEN ABOVE THE LEVEL OF THE SUPERIOR CLOUDS.
ON THE EXCESSIVE DIMINUTION OF OBJECTS ON THE SURFACE OF THE EARTH, TO A SPECTATOR SITUATED ABOVE THE REGION OF CLOUD, AT THE BAROMETRIC HEIGHT OF NEAR A MILE AND HALF, PERPENDICULAR.
CONJECTURES ON THE CAUSES WHICH INFLUENCE THE DESCENT OF BALLOONS IN THEIR PASSAGE OVER WATER.
CHAPTER XXXXII.
CHAPTER XXXXIII.
OBJECTION TO THE THEORY REMOVED.
CHAPTER XXXXV.
CHAPTER XXXXVI.
CHAPTER XXXXVII.
CHAPTER XXXXVIII.
CHAPTER XXXXIX.
CORROBORATING PROOFS OF A DEPRESSION.
CHAPTER LI.
CHAPTER LII.
A GENERAL OBSERVATION.
ANOTHER METHOD OF SUSTAINING A BALLOON OVER WATER, WITHOUT LOSS OF GASS, OR OF BALLAST.
ON THE NECESSITY OF ASCERTAINING THE PROPER MODES OF DIRECTION, BY DIFFERENT AND FREQUENT EXPERIMENTS.
NEW MODE OF ASCENT, TO DETERMINE THE INSTANT THE BALLOON IS ARRIVED AT ANY GIVEN HEIGHT: TO MEASURE THE HEIGHTS: AND TO ESTIMATE THE DENSITIES OF THE AIR AT THE GIVEN HEIGHTS. ALSO, A METHOD OF ASCENDING TO A FIXED BAROMETRIC HEIGHT: THERE TO REMAIN SUSPENDED IN EQUILIBRIO.
ON BAL LOONS. THEIR DEFECTS AND FARTHER IMPROVEMENTS.
OF THE AIR-BOTTLE BALLOON.
SUPERIORITY OF THE AIR-BOTTLE TO AN INTERIOR BALLOON.
HINTS FOR THE DIRECTION OF THE BALLOON.
HINT FOR A VANE-SAIL TO PREVENT THE BALLOON FROM TURNING ROUND, WHILE THE WIND CONTINUES STEADY.
DEFECTS, IN THE COMPOSITION FOR BALLOONS, REMEDIED. ALSO ON THE COCHUC-VARNISH.
ON VARNISHES, CONTINUED.
HINTS ON IMPROVEMENT OF THE MACHINERY.
ON THE UTILITY OF BALLOONS: AN INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER.
ON THE UTILITY OF BALLOONS.
THE PROCESS OF INFLATION.
CHAPTER LXVIII.
MENSURATION OF HEIGHTS.
METHODS TO ASCERTAIN THE TRUE HEIGHT.
The 5th Step, applied in the first Example.
CHAPTER LXXII.
THE THIRD TABLE, OR TABLE FOR TENTHS:
Chapter 75
THE FOURTH TABLE,
Chapter 77
With a distinct View of the Work. (Ph. Tr. for 1777, Page 579.)
PRACTICE OF THE FIRST TABLE IN THE SECOND EXAMPLE.
PRACTICE OF THE THIRD EXAMPLE,
PRACTICE OF THE FOURTH EXAMPLE,[134] FOR MEASURING SMALL HEIGHTS.
A CALCULATION TO ASCERTAIN THE HEIGHT OF THE BALLOON ON THE DAY OF ASCENT: ONE BAROMETER AND ONE THERMOMETER ONLY, BEING TAKEN UP INTO THE CAR.
VI.
An alphabetical index of the contents:
Chapter 85
Chapter 86
Chapter 87
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