Boyle, Robert, New experiments physico-mechanicall, touching the spring of the air and its effects, 1660

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              (as we have elſe-where alſo noted) any
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              ſuch boundleſs thing as men have been
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              pleas'd to imagine. </s>
              <s>And the reaſon, why
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              in the former Experiments, mentioned
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              in favour of the Pleniſts, Bodies ſeem to
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              forget their own Natures to ſhun a
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              Va­
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              cuum,
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              ſeems to be but this; That in the
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              alleadged caſes the weight of that Wa­
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              ter that was either kept from falling or
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              impell'd up, was not great enough to
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              ſurmount the preſſure of the contiguous
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              Air; which, if it had been, the Water
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              would have ſubſided, though no Air could
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              have ſucceeded. </s>
              <s>For not to repeat that
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              Experiment of Monſieur
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              Paſchal
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              (for­
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              merly mention'd to have been try'd in a
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              Glaſs exceeding 32 Foot) wherein the
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              inverted Pipe being long enough to con­
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              tain a competent weight of Water, that
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              Liquor freely ran out at the lower Orifice:
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              Not to mention this (I ſay) we ſaw in
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              our nineteenth Experiment, that when
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              the preſſure of the ambient Air was ſuffi­
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              ciently weaken'd, the Water would fall
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              out apace at the Orifice even of a ſhort
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              Pipe, though the Air could not ſucceed
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              into the room deſerted by it. </s>
              <s>And it were
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              not amiſs if tryal were made on the tops
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              of very high Mountains, to diſcover with </s>
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