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

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              quor will aſcend to ſome height in the
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              Pipe, though held perpendicular to the
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              plain of the Water.</s>
              <s>And, to ſatisfie me
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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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              which I had cauſ'd to be made after a
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              ſomewhat peculiar faſhion, taken notice
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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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              had made but litllereflection upon it.</s>
              <s>But
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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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              wonder of ſome famous Mathematicians,
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              who were Spectators of ſome of theſe</s>
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