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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moſt boundleſs power; we afterwards pur
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poſely try'd this Experiment with ſeveral
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Glaſſes ſomewhat thicker then thoſe Vi
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tical Glaſs ſo often mention'd, and the
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proportionate Stop-cock, we thought fit
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to provide our ſelves of ſome ſmall Recei
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vers blown of Cryſtalline Glaſs, of ſeve
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rall Shapes, and furniſhed with ſmaller
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Stop-cocks purpoſely made; and this we
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did upon hopes that when we had ſur
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mounted the difficulties to be met with in
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Cementing the Glaſſes to the Stop
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cocks, and the Pneumatical Veſſels to the
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Pump ſo exquiſitely as is requiſite for our
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purpoſe, we ſhould from the ſmalneſs of
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