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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it down into the Glaſs; and ſpeedily clo
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ſing it, we cauſ'd the Pumper to ply
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his work, and obſerv'd that upon the ve
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ry firſt exſuction of the Air (though per
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haps not becauſe of that onely) the Fire
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in the Coals began to grow very dim, and
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though the agitation of the Veſſel did
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make them ſwing up and down (which in
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the free Air would have retarded the ex
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tinction of the Fire) yet when we could
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no longer diſcern any redneſs at all in any
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Watch we kept by us on this occaſion, we
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found that from the beginning of the
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nutes after the Coals had been put in
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glowing) to the total diſ-appearing of
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the Fire, there had paſſed but three mi
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>Whereupon, to try the Experiment a
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little further, we preſently took out the
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Coals, in which it ſeems there had re
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mained ſome little parcels of Fire, rather
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cover'd then totally quench'd: For in the
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open Air the Coals began to be re-kind
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led in ſeveral places, wherefore having by
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ſwinging them about in the Wier,
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throughly lighted them the ſecond time,
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