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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to think by ſeveral Circumſtances. </
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when an eminent Mathematician, and ex
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cellent Experimenter, had taken great
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pains and ſpent much time in accuratly fil
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ling up a Tube of Mercury, we found
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that yet there remain'd ſtore of inconſpi
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cuous bubbles, by inverting the Tube,
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letting the Quick-ſilver fall to its wonted
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heighth; and by approaching (by de
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grees) a red hot Iron to the out-ſide of the
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Tube, over againſt the upper part of the
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Mercurial Cylinder, for hereby the little
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unheeded bubbles, being mightily expan
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ded, aſcended in ſuch numbers, and ſo faſt
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to the deſerted ſpace, that the upper part
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of the Quick-ſilver ſeem'd, to our wonder,
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Torricellian
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we have ſeen made by others, and (one
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upon the inclining of the Tube the Quick
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ſilver would fully reach to the very top of
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the ſeal'd end: which argued, that there
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was ſome Air retreated thither that kept
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the Mercury out of the unrepleniſh'd
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what are the beſt expedients to hinder the
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intruſion of the Air in this Experiment; </
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