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 he miſ-related not the Experiment,
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he ſoon after brought two or three
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ſmall Pipes of Glaſs, which gave me the
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opportunity of trying it: though I had
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the leſs reaſon to diſtruſt it, becauſe I re-
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member I had often in the long and flen-
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der Pipes of ſome Weather Glaſſas,
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of the like aſcenſion of the Liquor,
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though (preſuming it might be caſual) I
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after this tryal, beginning to ſuppoſe, that
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though the Water in theſe Pipes that
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were brought me, riſe not above a quar-
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ter of an Inch, (if near ſo high) yet, if
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the Pipes were made flender enough, the
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water might riſe to a very much greater
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height; I cauſ'd ſeveral of them to be, by
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a dexterous Hand, drawn out at the flame
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of a Lamp, in one of which that was
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almoſt incredibly flender, we found that
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the Water asſended (as it were of it ſelf)
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five Inches by meaſure, to the no ſmall
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