Boyle, Robert
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New experiments physico-mechanicall, touching the spring of the air and its effects
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1660
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turn'd the Key and ſtopt the Valve, yet we
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could plainly hear the noiſe made by the
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ballance, though we held our Ears ſome
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ſeems to prove, that whether or no the
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Air be the onely, it is at leaſt, the princi
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it is very well worth noting, that in a Veſ
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ſel ſo well cloſ'd as our Receiver, ſo weak
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a pulſe as that of the ballance of a Watch
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ſhould propagate a motion to the Ear in a
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Phiſically ſtraight Line, notwithſtanding
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the interpoſition of ſo cloſe a Body as
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Glaſs, eſpecially Glaſs of ſuch thickneſs
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as that of our Receiver; ſince by this it
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ſeems that the air impriſon'd in the Glaſs,
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muſt, by the motion of the ballance, be
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made to beat againſt the concave part of
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the Receiver, ſtrongly enough to make
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its convex part beat upon the contiguous
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Air, and ſo propagate the motion to the
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Liſtners ears. </
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that a Sound, made in the cavity of a
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