Encyclopaedia; or, A dictionary of arts, sciences, and miscellaneous literature; constructed on a plan, by which the different sciences and arts are digested into the form of distinct treatises of . al-fured of the truth of this by Madam Pierier, and teve-ral other writers, the credit of whofe toftimony can-not be quelKoned. He had, from hence-forward, full liberty to indulge his genius in mathe-matical purfuits. He underdood Euclids Elementsas foon as he call his eyes upon tliem : and this wasnot drange ; for, as we have feen, he underdood thembefore. At 16 years of age
Encyclopaedia; or, A dictionary of arts, sciences, and miscellaneous literature; constructed on a plan, by which the different sciences and arts are digested into the form of distinct treatises of . al-fured of the truth of this by Madam Pierier, and teve-ral other writers, the credit of whofe toftimony can-not be quelKoned. He had, from hence-forward, full liberty to indulge his genius in mathe-matical purfuits. He underdood Euclids Elementsas foon as he call his eyes upon tliem : and this wasnot drange ; for, as we have feen, he underdood thembefore. At 16 years of age he wrote a trejtife of co-nic feiSions, which was accounted by the molt learneda mghty effort cf genius ; and thersfors it is no won-der that Defcartes, who had been in Holland a longtime, fhculd, upon reading it, choofe to believe thatMr Pafcal the father was the re,d au hor of it. , he contrived an admirable machine,which was elleemed a very wonJerful thing, andwould have done credit as an invention to any manverfed in fcience, and much more to inch a youth—About this time his health bscamj impaired, and hewas in confequencc obliged to fufpend his labours ; nor T^mcAiirtf^ r PAS [ 795 ] PAS Pafca!. nor was he in a condition to icdinit thtin till four ~~~^ ? years after. About that period, having fecn Ior- ricellis experiment rcipe^ling a vacuum and theweight of the air, he turned his tlioughts towaidsthefe objtifls ; and in a conference with Mr Feiit,hitendant of fortifications, propofcd lo make far-ther rcfsarclies. In confequence ot this idea, he un-dertook f;veral new expeiiin,;nts, one of which wasas foUows : Having provided a glais tube, 46 feetin length, open at c;ne end, and hermetically atthe otii^r, he filled it with red wine, that he mght di-IHnj^uifli the Iquor from the tube. He then elevatedit in tills conditiin ; and h,iving placed it perpendicu-larly to the horizon, ftcpped up the bottom, and plun-ged it into a vef
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