Book, Aphorism

 1        1, XIII  |      gunpowder and the like, where compression and imprisonment increase
 2        1, XIII  |        motion be checked by strong compression, the fire is immediately
 3        1, XX    |        fire and heat by any strong compression, which checks and stops
 4        1, XXXVI |           and another moved by the compression of an iron spring. Let them
 5        1, XLV   |        must inquire what degree of compression or extension bodies (according
 6        1, XLV   |    compressed, it allows a certain compression of the air, but if the compression
 7        1, XLV   | compression of the air, but if the compression be increased the air does
 8        1, XLV   |           the extension as well as compression of which air was susceptible,
 9        1, XLV   |      bodies (such as water) suffer compression with much greater difficulty
10        1, XLV   |     computed the space lost by the compression and concluded that this
11        1, XLV   |        that this was the extent of compression which the water had suffered,
12        1, XLV   |            great violence.~But the compression or extension endured by
13        1, XLVIII|       there might be a far greater compression of these bodies than they
14        1, XLVIII|            that is, of escape from compression to relaxation. For either
15        1, L     |   particularly to be observed that compression and such violent means have
16        1, L     |          ignition, is destroyed by compression, just as every machine is
17        1, L     |           taken place and that the compression was transitory. Something
18        1, L     |        stick bent for some time by compression does not recoil, and this
19        1, L     |          these is caused by simple compression, which can do but little