The Pacific Educational Journal 1888 Vol 2 PDF Download

Excerpt from The Pacific School and Home Journal, Vol. 2: March, 1878 You have all heard or read that the air presses with great weight upon the earth. Many of you do not be lieve the story about the pressure upon a man's body being many hund red pounds. Ikobabhrnonecfi you know that the air has weight as you know that water is heavy. You can not handkait dhecdy as you can water but, indirectly, you have felt its weight when pushing your way against a strong head wind. Now, although our experiments will not make you feel the weight of the air, they will enable you to see its weight as clearly as a pair of scales can show you the weight of a stone. 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.