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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our Receiver become much more languid
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then ordinary, by reaſon of the want of
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Air, ſo they would grow ſtronger, in caſe
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there were an unuſual quantity of Air
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crouded and ſhut up in the ſame Veſſel,
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firmly faſten'd (by binding and Cement,
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or otherwiſe) to the Glaſs; and to each
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other, that there be no danger of the
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condenſ'd Airs blowing of either of them
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of leaſure, as, of as good Receivers as
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ours, to ſubſtitute in its place, in caſe we
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ſhould break it before we learn'd the skill
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of condencing the Air in it, we durſt not
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put them in practice: Yet, on this occa
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ſion, give me leave to advertiſe Your
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the reaſons newly intimated, we have,
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Onely in the ſeventeenth Experiment,
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taken notice, that by the help of our En
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gine the Air may be condenſ'd as well as
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rarified; yet there are divers other of our
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