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

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              time been communicated or propagated
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              through both the Glaſſes, and the inter­
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              val betwixt them to the Impriſon'd Air,
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              did ſo rarifie that, as to inable it, by preſ­
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              ſing upon the ſubjacent Water, to impel
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              that in the Pipe very many times as far as
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              it had fallen downwards upon the Exſucti­
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              on of the Air. </s>
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              <s>Yet ſhall not we conclude, that in the
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              cavity of the Receiver the cold was great­
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              er after the Exſuction of the Air then be­
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              fore. </s>
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              <s>For if it be demanded what then could
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              cauſe the fore-mention'd ſubſiding of the
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              Water? </s>
              <s>it may be anſwered, That pro­
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              bably it was the reaching of the Glaſs
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              Egge, which, upon the Exſuction of the
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              ambient Air, was unable to reſiſt alto­
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              gether as much as formerly the preſſure of
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              the included Air, and of the Atmoſphere,
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              which by the intervenſion of the Water,
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              preſſ'd upon its concave ſurface: Which
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              ſeem'd probable, as well by what was a­
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              bove deliver'd, in the Experiment about
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              the breaking of the Glaſs by the force of
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              the Atmoſphere; as by this notable Cir­
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              cumſtance (which we divers times ob­
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              ſerv'd) That when by drawing the Air out
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              of the Receiver, the Water in the Pipe </s>
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