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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Men, that if the exquiſitly poliſh'd
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congruous to each other that from their
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mutuall application there will reſult an
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immediate contact, they will ſtick ſo faſt
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together, that he that lifts up the upper
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moſt, ſhall, if the undermoſt be not ex
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ceeding heavy, lift up that too, and ſuſ
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ble cauſe of this ſo cloſe adheſion we have
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elſewhere endeavour'd to deduce from the
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unequall preſſure of the Air upon the un
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dermoſt ſtone; For the lower
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of that ſtone being freely expos'd to the
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Air is preſſ'd upon by it, whereas the up
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permoſt ſurface, being contiguous to the
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ſuperiour ſtone, is thereby defended from
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the preſſure of the Air which conſequent
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