We behold indeed, in the motions of the celestial bodies, some effects of [the attraction] that may be call'd more august or pompous. But methinks these little hyperbolas, form'd by a fluid between two glass planes, are not a-whit less fine and curious than the spacious ellipses describ'd by the planets, in the bright expanse of Heaven.

The New Law of Fluids: or, a Discourse Concerning the Ascent of, Liquors, in Exact Geometrical Figures Between Two Nearly Contiguous, Surfaces, to Which Is Added the True State of the Case About Matter's, Thinking (p. 41)