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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provement: ſo when the Engine we
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to be empty'd, conſiſting of one entire
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and uninterrupted Globe and Neck of
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Glaſs; the whole Engine is ſo made, that
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things cannot be convey'd into it, where
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on to try Experiments: So that there
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