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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hot Iron, with ſome Body eaſie to be
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diſſipated into ſmoke ſet upon it, but con
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ſider'd, that neither was that way free
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from inconveniencies; eſpecially this, that
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the hot Body would make the Impriſon'd
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Air circulate within the Receiver, and
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conſequently make it queſtionable whe
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ther the aſcent of the ſteams would not
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be due to the new and acquired motion of
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>Wherefore I bethought my ſelf of an
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other way to ſatisfie in ſome meaſure my
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curioſity, to wit, by means of a certain
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Liquor, which I call'd to minde that ſome
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years ago I had (for a deſign that belongs
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not to our preſent purpoſe) prepar'd;
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which, I ſuppoſe, I ſhew'd Your Lord
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ſhip, and which had the luck to be ta
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ken notice of by divers very Ingenious
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though moſt of its Ingredients be Metals,
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and all of them ponderous enough, is yet
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of that nature, that whilſt the Viol where
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in it is kept is ſtopt (how ſlight a Cover
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ſoever) both the Liquor and the Glaſs
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