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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that two Bodies, though they touch each
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other but in a ſmall part of their ſurfaces,
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may be made to cohere very ſtrongly,
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onely by this, That the Air preſſes much
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cies of the lowermoſt Body, then upon
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the upper ſurface of the ſame: We will
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cerning Fluidity and Firmneſs, made
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mention of my having, by the exſuction
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of the Air out of a Glaſs Veſſel, made
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that Veſſel take up, or ſuck up (to ſpeak in
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the common Language) a Body weighing
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divers Ounces; but our Engine affording
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us the opportunity of making conſider
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abler Experiments of that kinde, We
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thought fit to make a further tryal of the
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force of the Atmoſphere's preſſure up
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cloſ'd, as we have often taught already,
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and the Air being in a good meaſure drawn
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out of it, it was remov'd from off the
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