1the Receiver, the Quick-ſilver in the Tube
would aſcend much above the wonted
height of 27 digits, and immediatly up
on the letting out of that Air would fall a
gain to the height it reſted at before.
would aſcend much above the wonted
height of 27 digits, and immediatly up
on the letting out of that Air would fall a
gain to the height it reſted at before.
Your Lordſhip will here perhaps expect,
that as thoſe who have treated of the Tor
ricellian Experiment, have for the moſt
part maintaind the Affirmative, or the Ne
gative of that famous Queſtion, Whether
or no that Noble Experiment infer a Va
cuum? ſo I ſhould on this occaſion inter
poſe my Opinion touching that Contro
verſie, or at leaſt declare whether or no, in
our Engine, the exſuction of the Air do
prove the place deſerted by the Air ſuck'd
out, to be truly empty, that is, devoid of
all Corporeal Subſtance. But beſides that,
I have neither the leiſure, nor the ability,
to enter into a ſolemn Debate of ſo nice a
Queſtion; Your Lordſhip may, if you
think it worth the trouble, in the Dia
logues not long ſince referr'd to, finde the
Difficulties on both ſides repreſented;
which then made me yield but a very wa
vering aſſent to either of the parties con
tending about the Queſtion: Nor dare I
yet take upon me to determine ſo difficult
a Controverſie.
that as thoſe who have treated of the Tor
ricellian Experiment, have for the moſt
part maintaind the Affirmative, or the Ne
gative of that famous Queſtion, Whether
or no that Noble Experiment infer a Va
cuum? ſo I ſhould on this occaſion inter
poſe my Opinion touching that Contro
verſie, or at leaſt declare whether or no, in
our Engine, the exſuction of the Air do
prove the place deſerted by the Air ſuck'd
out, to be truly empty, that is, devoid of
all Corporeal Subſtance. But beſides that,
I have neither the leiſure, nor the ability,
to enter into a ſolemn Debate of ſo nice a
Queſtion; Your Lordſhip may, if you
think it worth the trouble, in the Dia
logues not long ſince referr'd to, finde the
Difficulties on both ſides repreſented;
which then made me yield but a very wa
vering aſſent to either of the parties con
tending about the Queſtion: Nor dare I
yet take upon me to determine ſo difficult
a Controverſie.