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

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              cable, each of which would exerciſe our
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              Underſtandings, if not poſe them too, if
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              we would but attentively enough conſider
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              it, and not ſuperficially contemplate, but
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              attempt ſatisfactorily to explicate the na­
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              <s>SInce the writing of the twenty one and
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              twenty ſecond Experiments (and not­
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              withſtanding all that hath been on their
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              occaſion deliver'd concerning bubbles) we
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              made ſome further tryals in proſecution
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              of the ſame inquiry whereto they were
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              deſigned. </s>
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              Experi­
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              23.</s>
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              <s>We choſe then, amongſt thoſe Glaſſes
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              which Chymiſts are wont to call Philoſo­
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              phical Eggs, one that containing about
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              nine Ounces of Water, had a Neck of
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              half an Inch in Diameter at the top, and
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              as we gheſt, almoſt an Inch at the bot­
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              tom; which breadth we pitch'd upon for
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              a reaſon that will by and by appear: then
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              filling it with common Water to the
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              height of about a Foot and a half, ſo
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              that the upper part remain'd empty, we
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              ſhut it into the Receiver, and watch'd what
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              would follow upon pumping, which pro-</s>
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