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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there had in readineſs a round and hollow
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Veſſel of Pewter, great enough to con
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tain two pounds of Water, and exactly
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cloſe every where, but at one little hole
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where it was to be fill'd; then partly by
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ſucking out the Air, and partly by inject
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ing Water with a Syringe, it was (not
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without ſome difficulty) fill'd up to the
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upwards, there was a little more Water
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which, though the Veſſel were permitted
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to reſt, and the hole kept in its former po
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ſture, yet the compreſſ'd Water leiſurely
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terer (who had made the Globe) to cloſe
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it up in our preſence with Soder ſo exqui
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ſitely, that none ſuſpected there was any
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ly, the Veſſel thus ſoder'd up, was wari
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ly and often ſtruck in divers places with a
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Wooden Mallet, and thereby was mani
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feſtly compreſſ d, whereby the incloſed
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Water was crouded into leſs room then it
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had before: And thereupon when we took
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a Needle, and with it and the Mallet per
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