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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the lower parts of the Veſſel, made their
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way through the Body of the Water, to
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the top of it, and there brake into the
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Receiver: And after the Water once ap
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pear'd to ſwell, then at each time the Stop
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cock was turn'd to let out the air from the
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Receiver into the Pump, the Water in the
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Neck of the Glaſs did ſuddenly riſe a
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bout the breadth of a Barly-corn in the
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Neck of the Glaſs, and ſo attain'd, by
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ſuddenly let in, and the Water immedi
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ately ſubſided and deſerted all the ſpace it
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it in another Paper, to another purpoſe)
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with another Expedient that we made uſe
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of two or three years ago, to try whether
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that time then, That Great and Learned
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Promoter of Experimental Philoſophy
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