Boyle, Robert, New experiments physico-mechanicall, touching the spring of the air and its effects, 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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              ter it into the Air, to the height of two
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              or three Feet. </s>
              <s>As for the other
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              Phænome­
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              na
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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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              with ere long, I judged it not ſafe to in­
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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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              als, to the mention of which I will there­
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              fore haſten. </s>
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              <s>TO diſcover whether the Expanſion
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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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              of the Water may not be aſcribed to ſome </s>
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