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Excerpt from The Complete Works of Count Rumford, Vol. 3: Published by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Made witha view to determine the question, so long agitated, relative to'the weight which has been supposed to be gained, or to be lost, by bodies upon their being heated, are Ofa nature so very delicate, and are liable to 80 many errors, not only on account of the imperfections Of the instruments made use Of, but also Of those, much more difficult to appreciate, arising from the vertical currents-in the atmosphere, caused by the hot or the cold body which is placed in the balance, that it is not at all surprising that Opinions have been SO much divided, relative to a fact so very difficult to ascertain. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
