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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pect, that by the ſame means Water
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might be brought to ſubſide in Glaſs
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Tubes of a moderate length, though by
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the noble Experiment, ſaid to have been
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we are informed that a Tube of
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no leſs then about two and thirty Foot,
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De Vacuo
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ſucceed with Water in
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>We took then a Tube of Glaſs, Her
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foot in length, and not very ſlender: This
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neath the ſurface of a quantity of the like
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Water, contain'd in a ſomewhat deep and
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ter the accuſtom'd manner, the Pump was
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