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

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              Yoke of Oxen drawing it ſeveral ways. </s>
              <s>I
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              know, My Lord, that to ſolve this Pro­
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              blem, it will be ſaid, That Congelation
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              does not (as is commonly, but erroneouſly
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              preſum'd) reduce water into leſs room
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              then it poſſeſſ'd before, but rather makes
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              it take up more. </s>
              <s>And I have elſewhere
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              prov'd by particular Experiments, That
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              whether or no Ice may be truly ſaid to be
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              Water rarefi'd (for that ſeems queſtion­
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              able) it may be ſaid to take up more room
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              then the Water did before Glaciation.
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              <s>But though we grant that freezing makes
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              Water ſwell, yet, how Cold (which in
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              Weather-Glaſſes manifeſtly condences
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              the Air) ſhould expand either the Water,
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              or the intercepted Air ſo forcibly, as to
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              perform ſuch things as we have newly re­
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              lated, will yet remain a Problem. </s>
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              <s>WE took an Oval Glaſs, clear and
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              (leaſt it ſhould break) pretty
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              ſtrong, with a ſhort Neck at the obtuſer
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              end, through this Neck, we thruſt almoſt
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              to the bottom, a Pipe of Glaſs, which was
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              cloſely Cemented to the newly mention'd
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              Neck, the upper part of which Pipe,
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              was drawn in ſome places more ſlender </s>
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