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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ally ſuppoſing the dilatation not to be re
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Experiment, we have met with ſome
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Glaſſes not very unfit for our purpoſe;
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by means of which we are now able, with
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a little more trouble, to meaſure the ex
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panſion of the Air a great deal more ac
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curately then we could by the help of the
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above-mention'd Bladder, which was
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much to narrow to allow the Air its ut
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of Glaſs, whoſe bore was about a quarter
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of an Inch in Diameter: this Pipe was ſo
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bent and doubled, that, notwithſtanding
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its being about two foot in length, it
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might have been ſhut up into a ſmall Re
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ceiver, not a Foot high: But by miſ
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fortune it crack'd in the cooling, whereby
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we were reduced to make uſe of one part
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which was ſtraight and intire, but exceed
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ed not ſix or ſeven Inches. </
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Tube was open at one end; and at the
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other, where it was Hermetically ſeal'd,
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had a ſmall Glaſs bubble to receive the
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Air whoſe dilatation was to be meaſur'd. </
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