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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ly mention'd (touching fluidity and firm
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neſs) and ſubjoyn it here with alterations
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ſuitable to the contrivance of our Engine;
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and this the rather, becauſe I hope it may
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conduce to the diſcovery of the nature of
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the Atmoſphere: for which reaſon it
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might have been annext to what has been
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noted either upon the firſt, or eighteenth
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Experiment, but that when they were
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try'd in our Engine, was as follows. </
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often mention'd already, and into it
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we convey'd a piece of well lighted Match;
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and letting it remain there till it had fill'd
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the Receiver with ſmoak, we took it out
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and haſtily cloſ'd again the Receiver, that
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ſtaying awhile to let theſe fumes leiſurely
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ſubſide, we found, as we expected, that
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after ſome time they ſetled themſelves in
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the lower half of the Receiver, in a dark
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iſh Body, leaving the upper half of the
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Receiver tranſparent, and as to ſight, full
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of nought but clear Air. </
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