Boyle, Robert, New experiments physico-mechanicall, touching the spring of the air and its effects, 1660

Page concordance

< >
Scan Original
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
< >
page |< < of 862 > >|
    <archimedes>
      <text>
        <body>
          <chap>
            <p type="main">
              <s>
                <pb xlink:href="013/01/109.jpg" pagenum="69"/>
              lently by the incumbent Air, that get­
                <lb/>
              ting a little within the tapering Lip of the
                <lb/>
              Glaſs, it did like a kinde of Wedge, thruſt
                <lb/>
              out that ſide where it was depreſſ'd, ſo as,
                <lb/>
              though the Receiver was new, to ſplit it.
                <lb/>
              </s>
              <s>This accident being thus mention'd upon
                <lb/>
              the by to confirm what we formerly ſaid
                <lb/>
              touching the fitneſs or unfitneſs of Glaſſes
                <lb/>
              of ſome Figures to reſiſt the preſſure of
                <lb/>
              the Atmoſphere; We will proceed to
                <lb/>
              relate the remaining part of the Experi­
                <lb/>
              ment, namely, That having fitted on a
                <lb/>
              wider Cover to the ſame Receiver, and
                <lb/>
              cloſed both that and the crack with Ce­
                <lb/>
              ment, we proſecuted the Experiment in
                <lb/>
              the manner above related, with this ſuc­
                <lb/>
              ceſs: That upon the quick depreſſing of
                <lb/>
              the Sucker, the external Air burſt the
                <lb/>
              Body of the Viol in above a hundred pie­
                <lb/>
              ces, many of them exceeding ſmall, and
                <lb/>
              that with ſuch violence that we found a
                <lb/>
              wide rent, beſides many holes, made in
                <lb/>
              the Bladder it ſelf. </s>
            </p>
            <p type="main">
              <s>And to evince that theſe
                <emph type="italics"/>
              Phænomena
                <emph.end type="italics"/>
                <lb/>
              were the effects of a limited and even
                <lb/>
              moderate force, and not of ſuch an ab­
                <lb/>
              horrency of a
                <emph type="italics"/>
              Vacuum
                <emph.end type="italics"/>
              as that to avoid it,
                <lb/>
              many have been pleaſed to think that Na­
                <lb/>
              ture muſt, upon occaſion, exerciſe an al-</s>
            </p>
          </chap>
        </body>
      </text>
    </archimedes>
Impressum