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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lently by the incumbent Air, that get
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ting a little within the tapering Lip of the
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Glaſs, it did like a kinde of Wedge, thruſt
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out that ſide where it was depreſſ'd, ſo as,
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though the Receiver was new, to ſplit it.
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of ſome Figures to reſiſt the preſſure of
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the Atmoſphere; We will proceed to
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ment, namely, That having fitted on a
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wider Cover to the ſame Receiver, and
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cloſed both that and the crack with Ce
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ment, we proſecuted the Experiment in
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the manner above related, with this ſuc
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ceſs: That upon the quick depreſſing of
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the Sucker, the external Air burſt the
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Body of the Viol in above a hundred pie
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ces, many of them exceeding ſmall, and
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that with ſuch violence that we found a
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were the effects of a limited and even
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as that to avoid it,
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