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

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              lively enough, though after about two mi­
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              nutes more he fell down quite dead, yet
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              with Convulſions far milder then thoſe
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              wherewith the two Birds expired. </s>
              <s>This
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              alacrity ſo little before his death, and his
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              not dying ſooner then at the end of the
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              eighth minute, ſeem'd aſcribable to the
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              Air (how little ſoever) that ſlipt into the
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              Receiver. </s>
              <s>For the firſt time, thoſe Con­
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              vulſions (that, if they had not been ſud­
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              denly remedied, had immediately diſ­
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              patch'd him) ſeiſ'd on him in ſix minutes
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              after the Pump began to be ſet awork.
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              <s>Theſe Experiments ſeem'd the more
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              ſtrange, in regard, that during a great part of
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              thoſe few minutes the Engine could but
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              conſiderably rarefie the Air (and that too,
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              but by degrees) and at the end of them
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              there remain'd in the Receiver no incon­
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              ſiderable quantity; as may appear by what
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              we have formerly ſaid of our not being
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              able to draw down Water in a Tube, with­
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              in much leſs then a Foot of the bottom:
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              with which we likewiſe conſider'd, that by
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              the exſuction of the Air and interſper­
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              ſed Vapors, there was left in the Recei­
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              ver a ſpace ſome hundreds of times ex­
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              ceeding the bigneſs of the Animal, to re­
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              ceive the fuliginous Steams, from which, </s>
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