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

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              ing made of much purer and clearer me­
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              tall, as the Glaſs-men ſpeak, then the
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              great Receiver, we might have a more
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              perfect view of every thing happening
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              within them. </s>
              <s>The next, that ſuch ſmall
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              Veſſels might be empty'd with leſs la­
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              bour and in much leſſe time. </s>
              <s>The third,
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              that this nimble exſuction of the ambient
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              Air would make many changes in the
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              Bodies ſhut up in theſe glaſſes more ſud­
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              den and conſpicuous then otherwiſe they
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              would prove. </s>
              <s>And the laſt, that we ſhould
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              be able to draw and keep out the Air much
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              more perfectly from ſuch ſmall Veſſels
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              then from our large Receiver. </s>
              <s>But though
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              we were not much diſ-appointed in the
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              expectation of the three firſt advantages,
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              yet we were in our hopes of the fourth.
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              <s>For beſides the great difficulty we found
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              in fitting together the Glaſſes, the Stop­
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              cocks and the Covers; beſides this I ſay,
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              we found our ſelves ſeldom able to draw,
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              and keep out the Air ſo far as to make the
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              remaining Air in theſe Receivers weaker
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              then the remaining Air in our great Recei­
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              ver. </s>
              <s>For though ſometimes the Leaks
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              of ſome of theſe little Receivers may be
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              much either fewer or ſmaller then thoſe
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              of the larger Veſſel; yet a little Air get-</s>
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