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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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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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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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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>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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