Boyle, Robert
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New experiments physico-mechanicall, touching the spring of the air and its effects
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1660
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was ſubſided, upon the readmiſſion of the
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external Air to preſs againſt the convex
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ſurface of the Egge, the Water was pre
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ſently re-impell'd to its former height:
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Which would perhaps appear leſs ſtrange
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to Your Lordſhip, if You had yet ſeen
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what we have heretofore taught in ano
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ther Treatiſe concerning the Spring that
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may be diſcover'd in Glaſs, as rigid and
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ſerve the turn to cauſe a Glaſs Egge to be
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blown exceeding thin, and then, having
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broken it, try how far you can by degrees
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bend ſome narrow parts of it; and how
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readily, upon the removal of what kept
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it bent, it will reſtore it ſelf to its former
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Experiment, From thence it ſeems pro
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bable, either that there ſucceeds no Bo
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dy in the room of the Air drawn out of
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our Receiver, or that it is not every Mat
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ter that is ſubtle enough readily to paſs
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through the Pores of Glaſs, that is al
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ways agitated enough to produce Heat
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be to be admitted, this Ex
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