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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we have been
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relating may not be imputed to the
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bare ſubſiding of the Water that fill'd
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the Tube, upon the taking off the preſ
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ſo that it may appear that if our Expe
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riments have not been as accurately made
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as with fitter Inſtruments might perhaps
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be poſſible; yet the expanſion of the
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Air is likely to be rather greater then
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leſſer then we have made it: Since the
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Air was able to preſs away the Water at
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the bottom of the Pipe, though that were
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about two Inches below the ſurface of the
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Water that was then in the Viol, and
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would have been at leaſt as high in the
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Pipe, if the Water had onely ſubſided and
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not been depreſſed: So that it ſeems not
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unlikely that if the Experiment could be
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ſo made, as that the expanſion of the Air
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might not be reſiſted by the Neighboring
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Bodies, it would yet inlarge its bounds,
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and perhaps ſtretch it ſelf to two hundred
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ever, what we have now try'd will, I hope,
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