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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appear'd both that there was there much
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ſpace devoid of Air, and that the Water
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might with ſmall or no reſiſtance have
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aſcended into it, if it could have done ſo
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without the impulſion of the readmitted
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Air; which, it ſeems, was neceſſary to
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mind the Water of its formerly neglected
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>Nay, for ought appeares, ev'n when
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the excluded Air, aſſoon as 'twas per
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mitted, ruſht violently into our exhau
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ſted Receiver, that flowing in of the
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Air proceeded rather from the deter
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minate Force of the Spring of the
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neighbouring Air, then from any endea
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vour to fill up, much leſs to prevent va
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>For though when as much Air as
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will, is gotten into our Receiver our pre
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ſent Opponents take it for granted that
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it is full of Air; yet if it be remembred
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that when we made our 17
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we crouded in more Air to our Receiver
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than it uſually holds; and if we alſo con
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ſider (which is much more) the Air of
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the ſame conſiſtence with that in our
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Receiver may in wind guns, as is known,
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and as we have try'd, be compreſſed at
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leaſt into halfe its wonted room (I ſay at
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