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

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              preſſure to that of the Air in the Viol
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              and the Pipes, did for a good while exhi-
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              bite a pleaſing variety of
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              Phaenomena
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              ,
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              which we have not now the leiſure to re-
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              cite.</s>
              <s>And though upon the whole mat-
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              ter there ſeem'd little or no cauſe to
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              doubt, but that, if the Bubbles had not
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              diſturb'd the Experiment, it would mani-
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              feſtly enough have appear'd that the
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              courſe of Water through
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              Siphons
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              de-
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              pends upon the preſſure of the Air: yet
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              we reſolv'd, at our next leiſure and con-
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              veniency, to try the Experiment again,
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              with a quantity of Water before freed
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              from Bubbles by the help of the ſame
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              Engine.</s>
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              <s>This occaſion I have had to take notice
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              of
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              Siphons
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              , puts me in minde of an odde
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              kinde of
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              Siphon
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              that I cauſ'd to be made
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              a pretty while ago; and which has been
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              ſince, by an Ingenious Man of Your ac-
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              quaintance, communicated to divers o-
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              thers.</s>
              <s>This occaſion was this, An emi-
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              nent Mathematician told me one day, that
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              ſome inquiſitive French Men (whoſe
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              Names I know not) had obſerv'd, That,
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              in caſe one end of a flender and perforated
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              Pipe of Glaſs be dipt in Water, the Li-</s>
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