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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And laſtly, cloſing up the ſame Taper,
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lighted again, to diſcover how long it
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would laſt without drawing out of the
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Air, we found that it burn'd for a while
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Flame did not, as before, retire it ſelf by
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little and little towards the top, but to
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wards the bottom of the Week (from
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which yet it did a little withdraw upwards
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juſt before it went out) ſo that the upper
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part of the Week appear'd for a pretty
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while manifeſtly above the top of the
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Flame, which having laſted about five
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bent almoſt in the form of a Screw,
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conſtituted ſuch an Inſtrument to contein
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Coals and leave them every way acceſſi
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ble to the Air, as the tenth Figure de
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clares; the breadth of this Veſſel was no
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leſs then that it might with eaſe be con
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vey'd into the Receiver: And having filld
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it to the height of about five Inches with
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