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

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              ly pent up in the Glaſs; yet I, that love
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              not to believe any thing upon Conje­
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              ctures, when by a not over-difficult Ex­
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              periment I can try whether it be True or
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              no, thought it the ſafeſt way to obviate
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              Objections, and remove Scruples, by ſhut­
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              ting up another Mouſe as cloſe as I could
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              in the Receiver, wherein it liv'd above
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              three quarters of an hour; and might pro­
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              bably have done ſo much longer, had not
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              a
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              Virtuoſo
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              of quality, who in the mean
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              while chanc'd to make me a Viſit, deſir'd
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              to ſee whether or no the Mouſe could be
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              kill'd by the exſuction of the ambient Air,
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              whereupon we thought fit to open, for a
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              little while, an intercourſe betwixt the
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              Air in the Receiver, and that without it,
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              that the Mouſe might thereby (if it were
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              needful for him) be refreſh d, and yet we
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              did this without uncementing the Cover
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              at the top, that it might not be objected,
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              that perhaps the Veſſel was more cloſely
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              ſtopp'd for the exſuction of the Air then
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              before. </s>
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              <s>The Experiment had this event, that
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              after the Mouſe had liv'd ten Minutes,
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              (which we aſcrib'd to this, that the Pump,
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              for want of having been lately Oyl'd,
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              could move but ſlowly, and could not by </s>
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