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

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              Glaſſes too cloſe ſtopp'd, fill'd with Wa­
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              ter or aqueous Liquors, but by Inſtances
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              as much more conſiderable as leſs obvi­
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              <s>For I remember, that an Ingenious
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              Stone-cutter not long ſince complain'd to
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              me, That ſometimes, through the negli­
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              gence of Servants, the Rain being ſuffer­
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              ed to ſoak into Marble Stones, the ſuper­
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              vening violent Froſts would burſt the
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              Stones, to the Profeſſors no ſmall dam­
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              age. </s>
              <s>And I remember another Trades­
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              man, in whoſe Houſe I had Lodgings, was
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              laſt Winter complaining, that even Im­
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              plements made of Bell-metal, being care­
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              leſly expoſ'd to the wet, have been broken
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              and ſpoil'd by the Water, which, having
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              gotten into the little Cavities and Cran­
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              nies of the Metal, was there afterwards
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              frozen and expanded into Ice. </s>
              <s>And to
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              theſe Relations, we can adde one of the
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              formerly mention'd
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              Cabæus's,
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              whereby
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              they not onely may be confirm'd, but are
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              ſurpaſſ'd: For he tells us, That he ſaw a
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              huge Veſſel of exceeding hard Marble,
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              ſplit aſunder by congel'd Water, whoſe
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              Rarefaction, ſays our Author, prov'd ſo
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              vehement, that the hardneſs of the Stone
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              yielded to it; and ſo a Veſſel was broken,
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              which would not have been ſo by 100 </s>
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