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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preſſure to that of the Air in the Viol
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and the Pipes, did for a good while exhi-
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bite a pleaſing variety of
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which we have not now the leiſure to re-
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ter there ſeem'd little or no cauſe to
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doubt, but that, if the Bubbles had not
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diſturb'd the Experiment, it would mani-
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feſtly enough have appear'd that the
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courſe of Water through
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Siphons
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pends upon the preſſure of the Air: yet
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we reſolv'd, at our next leiſure and con-
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veniency, to try the Experiment again,
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with a quantity of Water before freed
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from Bubbles by the help of the ſame
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, puts me in minde of an odde
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that I cauſ'd to be made
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a pretty while ago; and which has been
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ſince, by an Ingenious Man of Your ac-
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quaintance, communicated to divers o-
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nent Mathematician told me one day, that
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ſome inquiſitive French Men (whoſe
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Names I know not) had obſerv'd, That,
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in caſe one end of a flender and perforated
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Pipe of Glaſs be dipt in Water, the Li-</
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