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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Needle again; the Water (but in a very
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ſlender Stream) was ſuddenly thrown af
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of this Experiment, ſince they belong
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not to our preſent purpoſe, and are partly
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mention'd in another of our Papers, we
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ſhall, inſtead of recording them here, give
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this Advertiſement: That as evidently
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as this Experiment, and that made in our
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Receiver, ſeem to prove a power in the
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Water to expand and reſtore it ſelf after
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compreſſion; yet for a reaſon to be met
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fer that Concluſion from theſe Premiſes,
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till I had made ſome of the following try
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of the Water really proceeded
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from an Elaſtical power in the parts of
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the Water it ſelf, we thought it requiſite
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to try two things: The one, Whether or no
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the Atmoſphere gravitates upon Bodies
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under Water; and the other, Whether
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in caſe it do gravitate, the Intumeſcence
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