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

List of thumbnails

< >
101
101 		102
102
103
103 		104
104
105
105 		106
106
107
107 		108
108
109
109 		110
110
< >
page |< < of 862 > >|
    <archimedes>
      <text>
        <body>
          <chap>
            <p type="main">
              <s>
                <pb xlink:href="013/01/111.jpg" pagenum="71"/>
              ing made of much purer and clearer me­
                <lb/>
              tall, as the Glaſs-men ſpeak, then the
                <lb/>
              great Receiver, we might have a more
                <lb/>
              perfect view of every thing happening
                <lb/>
              within them. </s>
              <s>The next, that ſuch ſmall
                <lb/>
              Veſſels might be empty'd with leſs la­
                <lb/>
              bour and in much leſſe time. </s>
              <s>The third,
                <lb/>
              that this nimble exſuction of the ambient
                <lb/>
              Air would make many changes in the
                <lb/>
              Bodies ſhut up in theſe glaſſes more ſud­
                <lb/>
              den and conſpicuous then otherwiſe they
                <lb/>
              would prove. </s>
              <s>And the laſt, that we ſhould
                <lb/>
              be able to draw and keep out the Air much
                <lb/>
              more perfectly from ſuch ſmall Veſſels
                <lb/>
              then from our large Receiver. </s>
              <s>But though
                <lb/>
              we were not much diſ-appointed in the
                <lb/>
              expectation of the three firſt advantages,
                <lb/>
              yet we were in our hopes of the fourth.
                <lb/>
              </s>
              <s>For beſides the great difficulty we found
                <lb/>
              in fitting together the Glaſſes, the Stop­
                <lb/>
              cocks and the Covers; beſides this I ſay,
                <lb/>
              we found our ſelves ſeldom able to draw,
                <lb/>
              and keep out the Air ſo far as to make the
                <lb/>
              remaining Air in theſe Receivers weaker
                <lb/>
              then the remaining Air in our great Recei­
                <lb/>
              ver. </s>
              <s>For though ſometimes the Leaks
                <lb/>
              of ſome of theſe little Receivers may be
                <lb/>
              much either fewer or ſmaller then thoſe
                <lb/>
              of the larger Veſſel; yet a little Air get-</s>
            </p>
          </chap>
        </body>
      </text>
    </archimedes>
Impressum