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

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              ternal Air, remaining in the Receiver,
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              was grown inconſiderable, the aſcending
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              parcels of Air having now little more
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              then the weight of the incumbent Water
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              to ſurmount, were able both ſo to expand
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              themſelves as to fill up that part of the
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              Pipe which they pervaded, & by preſſing
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              every way againſt the ſides of it, to lift
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              upwards with them what Water they
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              found above them, without letting any
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              conſiderable quantity glide down along
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              the ſides of the Glaſs: So that ſometimes
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              we could ſee a bubble thruſt on before it
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              a whole Cylinder of Water of perhaps
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              an Inch high, and carry it up to the top
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              of the Pipe; though as we formerly no­
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              ted, upon the letting in the external Air,
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              theſe tumid bubbles ſuddenly relapſ'd to
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              their former inconſpicuouſneſs. </s>
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              <s>All theſe things laid together ſeem'd
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              ſufficiently to confirm that, which the
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              conſideration of the thing it ſelf would
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              eaſily enough perſwade, namely, That
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              the Air, and ſuch like Bodies being under
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              Water, may be preſſ'd upon as well by
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              the Atmoſphere, as by the weight of the
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              incumbent Water it ſelf. </s>
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              <s>Hence likewiſe we may verifie what we
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              obſerv'd at the cloſe of the foregoing </s>
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