An Important Question in Metrology: Based Upon Recent and Original Discoveries: A Challenge to the Metric System. and an Earnest Word with the English-Speaking Peoples on Their Ancient Weights and Measures
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 Excerpt: ...--TABLE OF ATMOSPHERIC HEIGHT AND RARITY. If 5.24132 miles high, rarity = 1 (i.e, unity). That is, at 20 times the mean height, or 104.82648 miles, the rarity of the atmosphere would be expressed by a fraction whose denominator was (2)20 = 1,048,576, a number which is practically equal to the height in miles 104.8264 ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 Excerpt: ...--TABLE OF ATMOSPHERIC HEIGHT AND RARITY. If 5.24132 miles high, rarity = 1 (i.e, unity). That is, at 20 times the mean height, or 104.82648 miles, the rarity of the atmosphere would be expressed by a fraction whose denominator was (2)20 = 1,048,576, a number which is practically equal to the height in miles 104.8264 multiplied by 10,000. The specific gravity of air at this degree of rarity would, under other standard circumstances, be.00000000116795-f-, etc. Furthermore, at double this height, or 209.65296 miles, the rarity would be = 1 4-1,099,577,163,776; and at 220 miles, which we have just considered to be practically the absolute limit of the atmosphere, the rarity would be just short of (,42 of air in the standard observatory, and at standard circumstances. Numerically this may be put as follows: at 42 times the height (5.241, etc., miles) of a standard atmosphere, the actual rarity of air (free to occupy that space by the atmospheric law above noted) would be expressed by (-. 42 times 5.241, etc., miles = 220.1356 miles, and (2)42 = (4)21 = 4,388,308, 655,104, say practically, for the rarity 4,400,000,000,000, or equal to a trifle less than twice the height in miles multiplied by (100)5, i.e., extreme rarity = 522tjm1oo)s Now, the atmosphere is a sea of air, whose fluctuations at a surface of such extreme rarity must produce waves of enormous size, and waves that (from the nature of gases, earth motion, and the earth-surface atmospheric commotion) can never be at rest. Taking these figures, therefore, as representing, as closely as possible, the actual mean height of the fluctuating atmospheric surface of the earth, the specific gravity of air at this surface will be represented by the standard specific gravity of air (.001224697) divided by 2(...
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