Boyle, Robert, New experiments physico-mechanicall, touching the spring of the air and its effects, 1660

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              open at both ends, and of divers Inches
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              in length: One end of this Pipe was ſo
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              put into the Neck of the Viol, as to reach
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              a little below it, and then was carefully
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              cemented thereto that no Air might get
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              into the Viol, nor no Water get out of
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              it, otherwiſe then through the Pipe; and
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              then the Pipe being warily fill'd, about
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              half way up to the top, with more Wa­
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              ter, and a mark being paſted over againſt
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              the upper ſurface of the Liquor; the Viol
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              thus fitted with the Pipe, was, by ſtrings
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              let down into the Receiver, and according
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              to the wonted manner exquiſitely cloſ'd
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              up in it. </s>
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              <s>This done, we began to Pump out the
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              Air, and when a pretty quantity of it had
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              been drawn away, the Water in the Pipe
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              began to riſe higher in the Pipe, at the
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              ſides of which ſome little bubbles diſco­
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              ver'd themſelves. </s>
              <s>After a little while
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              longer, the Water ſtill ſwelling, there
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              appear'd at the bottom of the Pipe a bub­
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              ble about the bigneſs of a ſmall Pea,
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              which aſcending through the Pipe to the
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              top of the Water, ſtaid there awhile and
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              then broke; but the Pump being nimbly
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              ply'd, the expanſion of the Water ſo en­
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              creaſ'd, that quickly, getting up to the </s>
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