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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Riviolo
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makes it probable, that the At
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moſphere may, at leaſt in divers places, be
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a moderate eſtimate of the thickneſs of
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the Atmoſphere, we may well ſuppoſe,
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that a Column of Air, of many miles in
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height, leaning upon ſome ſpringy Cor
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puſcles of Air here below, may have
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weight enough to bend their little ſprings,
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and keep them bent: As, to reſume our
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former compariſon, if there were fleeces of
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Wooll pil'd up to a mountainous height
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upon one another, the Hairs that com
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poſe the lowermoſt locks which ſupport
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the reſt, would, by the weight of all the
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Wool above them, be as well ſtrongly
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compreſſed, as if a man ſhould ſqueeze
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them together in his hands, or imploy any
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ſuch other moderate force to compreſs
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upon the taking off the incumbent Air
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from any parcel of the Atmoſphere here
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below, the Corpuſcles, whereof that un
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dermoſt Air conſiſts, ſhould diſplay them
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ſelves, and take up more room then be
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the weight of the upper and of the lower
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