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

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              very great compreſſion, which the weight
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              of the incumbent part of the Atmo­
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              ſphere is very ſufficient to give thoſe that
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              be undermoſt and near the ſurface of the
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              Earth. </s>
              <s>And if we recall to minde thoſe
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              former Experiments, whereby we have
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              manifeſted, That Air, much rarefied with­
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              out heat, may eaſily admit a further ra­
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              refaction from heat; and that the Air, even
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              without being expanded by heat, is capa­
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              ble of being rarefied to above one hundred
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              and fifty times the extent it uſually poſ­
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              ſeſſes here below; How can it be demon­
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              ſtrated that the Atmoſphere may not, for
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              ought we know, or at leaſt for ought can
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              be determin'd by our Statical and Mecha­
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              nical Experiments, riſe to the height of
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              Five and twenty
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              German
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              Leagues, if not
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              of ſome hundred of common Miles? </s>
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              4.
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              10.</s>
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              <s>And this conjecture it ſelf may appear
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              very injurious to the height whereunto
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              Exhalations may aſcend, if we will allow
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              that there was no miſtake in that ſtrange
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              Obſervation made at
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              Tolous
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              in a clear
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              Night in
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              Auguſt,
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              by the diligent Ma­
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              thematician
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              Emanuel Magnan,
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              and thus
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              Recorded by
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              Ricciolus,
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              (for I have not at
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              hand the Authors own Book)
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              Vidit
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              (ſays
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              he)
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              ab hor a undecima poſt meridiem uſ〈qué〉 ad
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