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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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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>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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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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