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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and ſeem'd to lift up the Bladder it
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>Now becauſe it has by very Learned
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Men been doubted whether the ſwelling
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of the Bladder may not have proceeded
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from the Dilatation of the included Air,
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but from the Texture of the Fibres,
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which, being wont to keep the Bladder
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extended when the Animal to whom it
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belong'd was alive, may be ſuppoſ'd in
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our Experiment to have return'd, like ſo
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many Springs to their wonted extent, up
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on the removal of the Ambient Air that
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compreſſ'd and bent them: becauſe this,
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I ſay, has been doubted, we thought fit
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>We let down into the Receiver with
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the fore-mentioned Bladder two other
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much ſmaller, and of the ſame kinde of
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Animal; the one of theſe was not ty'd
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up at the neck that there might be liberty
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left to the Air that was not ſqueez'd out
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(which might amount to about a fifth
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part of what the Bladder held before) to
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paſs out into the Receiver: The other had
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the ſides of it ſtretch'd out and preſſ'd to
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gether, almoſt into the form of a Cup,
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that they might intercept the leſs Air be
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twixt them, and then was ſtrongly ty'd </
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