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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odde an Experiment as we have been Re
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lating, we will adde that for farther ſatiſ
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faction we reiterated it in a round Glaſſe
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containing by gueſſe about ſix ounces
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of water: this violl we put into ſuch a
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ſmall Receiver as was lately mention'd,
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in ſuch manner as that the bottome of
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it reſted upon the lower part of the Pneu
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maticall Glaſſe, and the Neck came out
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miſchance, we had put the violl into a
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ceiver to hinder this laſt named Glaſſe
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veſſell being clos'd ſo that no way was
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left for the outward Air to get into it,
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but by breaking through the Viol, into
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whoſe cavity it had free acceſſe by the
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mouth of it, (which was purpoſely left
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open,) the Sucker being nimbly drawn
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down, the external Air immediatly preſſ'd
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forcibly as well upon the Leaden-Co
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ver as the Violl; and the Cover hap
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pening to be in one place a little narrow
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er then the edge of the Pneumatical Glaſs,
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