II. An account of some experiments shown before the Royal Society; with an enquiry into the cause of the ascent and suspension of water in capillary tubes.

Abstract

Some days ago a Method was proposed to me by an ingenious Friend, for making a perpetual Motion, which seem’d so plausible, and indeed so easily demonstrable from an Observation of the late Mr. <italic>Hawksbee</italic>, said to be grounded upon Experiment, that, tho' I am far from having any Opinion of attempts of this Nature, yet, I consess, I could not see why it should not succeed.