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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could not cloſe up the Veſſel and pump
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we had pump'd once or twice, we ſudden
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to the excluded Air, which ruſhing vio
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lently in, as if it had been forced thorow
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