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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Air would aſſiſt us to finde the cauſe of
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the aſcenſion we have been ſpeaking of:
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But though we imploy'd red Wine in-
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ſtead of Water, yet we could fearce cer-
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tainly perceive thorow ſo much Glaſs, as
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was interpoſ'd betwixt our Eyes and the
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Liquor, what happen'd in a Pipe ſo flen-
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der, that the redneſs of the Wine was
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ſcarce ſenſible in it.</
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diſcern, there happen'd no great altera-
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tion to the Liquor: which ſeem'd the leſs
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ſtrange, becauſe the Spring of that Air
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that might depreſs the Water in the Pipe,
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was equally debilitated with that which
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remain'd to preſs upon the ſurface of the
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Water in the little Glaſs.</
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favor of his Ingenious Conjecture who
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Phaenomenon
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, under conſide-
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ration to the greater preſſure made upon
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the Water by the Air without the Pipe,
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then by that within it, (where ſo much of
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the Water (conſiſting perhaps of Corpu-
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ſcles more pliant to the internal ſurfaces of
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the Air) was contiguous to the ſides) it
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was ſhown, that in caſe the little Glaſs
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Veſſel that held the Water, of which a
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part aſcended into the flender Pipe, were
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ſo cloſ'd, that a Man might with his mouth
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