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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(as we have elſe-where alſo noted) any
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in the former Experiments, mentioned
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in favour of the Pleniſts, Bodies ſeem to
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ſeems to be but this; That in the
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alleadged caſes the weight of that Wa
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ter that was either kept from falling or
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impell'd up, was not great enough to
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ſurmount the preſſure of the contiguous
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Air; which, if it had been, the Water
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would have ſubſided, though no Air could
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(for
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merly mention'd to have been try'd in a
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Glaſs exceeding 32 Foot) wherein the
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inverted Pipe being long enough to con
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tain a competent weight of Water, that
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Liquor freely ran out at the lower Orifice:
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Not to mention this (I ſay) we ſaw in
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our nineteenth Experiment, that when
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the preſſure of the ambient Air was ſuffi
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ciently weaken'd, the Water would fall
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out apace at the Orifice even of a ſhort
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Pipe, though the Air could not ſucceed
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into the room deſerted by it. </
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