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  <dc:title>Figures, observations on syphons by J T [John Theophilus] Desaguliers</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Five figures, labelled figures 1-5, relating to cups with syphons in them and experiments made by Desaguliers relating to plugs in vessels of water. Figures 1-2 shows two views of a goblet with a syphon that travels down its stem. Figure 3 shows a similar goblet in which the syphon is concealed by the figure of a man, representing Tantalus. Figures 4-5 show the setup for a series of experiments made by Desaguliers in his investigations into the flow of water.

Subject: Physics 

Read to the Royal Society on 21 November 1723</dc:description>
  <dc:date>1723</dc:date>
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