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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>But being deſirous at the ſame time to
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needs not here be mention'd, we took
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ſtrongly tyed at the Neck, and about
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half fill'd with Air (that being a weight
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both ſlight, and that would expand it
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ſelf in the evacuated Glaſs) and faſtning
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that to one part of our formerly menti
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part of a Grain) we put a Metalline
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Æquilibrium,
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preponderate, whereupon the Scales being
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quilibrium,
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yet ſo, that a little advantage
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remain'd on that ſide to which the Metal
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line weight belong'd; they were again let
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down into the Receiver, which was pre
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ſently made faſt with Plaiſter, and a hot
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