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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Experiment is this, That if, when the
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to do ſo, if the Veſſel be well exhauſted;
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Air has been drawn out, he will, when he
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light a Body, filled at moſt but with Air,
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