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

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              no ſuch thing in the world; but that the
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              generality of the Pleniſts, (eſpecially till
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              of late yeares ſome of them grew more
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              wary) did not take a
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              Vacuum
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              in ſo ſtrict
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              a Senſe, may appear by the Experiments
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              formerly, and ev'n to this Day imploy'd
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              by the Deniers of a Vacuum, to prove it
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              impoſſible that there can be any made.
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              <s>For when they alleadge (for Inſtance)
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              that when a man ſucks Water through a
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              long Pipe, that heavy Liquor, contrary
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              to its Nature, aſcends into the Sucker's
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              mouth, only, to fill up that room made
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              by the Dilatation of his Breſt and
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              Lungs, which otherwiſe will in part be
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              empty. </s>
              <s>And when they tell us, that the
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              reaſon why if a long Pipe exactly
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              clos'd at one end be fill'd top-ful
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              of Water, and then inverted, no Liquor
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              will fall out of the open Orifice; Or, to
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              uſe a more familiar Example, when they
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              teach, that the cauſe why in a Gardiner's
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              watering Pot ſhap'd conically, or like a
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              Sugar-Loaf fill'd with Water, no Liquor
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              fals down through the numerous holes
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              at the bottome, whilſt the Gardiner keeps
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              his Thumb upon the Orifice of the litle
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              hole at the top, and no longer, muſt be
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              that it in the caſe propoſed the Water </s>
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