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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ſince we are informed, that in the
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Experiment, commended at the begin
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ning of this Letter, the Ingenious Tryers
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of it found, That their Glaſs Veſſel, of
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the capacity of 32 meaſures, was lighter
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when the Air had been drawn out of it,
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and (3/10) that is, an ounce and very near a
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is not deyoid of weight, it will not be
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uneaſie to conceive, that that part of the
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Atmoſphere wherein we live, being the
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lower part of it, the Corpuſcles that com
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poſe it, are very much compreſſ'd by the
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weight of all thoſe of the like nature that
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are directly over them, that is, of all the
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Particles of Air, that being pil'd up up
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on them, reach to the top of the Atmoſ
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Atmoſphere, according to the famous
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Kepler,
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and ſome others, ſcarce exceeds
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eight common miles; yet other eminent
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