Boyle, Robert, New experiments physico-mechanicall, touching the spring of the air and its effects, 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.</s>
              <s>But as far as we could
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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.</s>
              <s>Wherefore, in
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              favor of his Ingenious Conjecture who
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              aſcrib'd the
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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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              ſuck the Air out of it, the Water would </s>
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