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

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              to inſtance in our newly mention'd Ex­
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              periment, aſſoon as the Valve was de­
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              preſs'd by the weight we hung at it,
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              ſhould the Air ſo impetuouſly and copi­
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              ouſly ruſh into the cavity of the Receiver;
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              if there were before no vacant room there
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              to receive it? </s>
              <s>and if there were, then all the
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              while the Valve kept out the Air, thoſe
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              litle ſpaces in the Receiver, which the
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              corpuſcles of that Air afterwards fill'd,
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              may be concluded to have remain'd em­
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              pty. </s>
              <s>So that the ſeeming violence,
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              imploy'd by Nature on the occaſion of
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              the evacuating of the Veſſel, ſeems to
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              have come too late to hinder the making
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              of Vacuities in the Receiver, and only
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              to have, aſſoon as we permitted, fill'd
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              up with Air thoſe that were already
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              made. </s>
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              <s>And as for the Care of the Publique
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              Good of the Univerſe aſcrib'd to dead
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              and ſtupid Bodies, wee ſhall only de­
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              mand, why in our 19
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              Experiment, upon
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              the Exſuction of the ambient Air, the
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              Water deſerted the upper half of the
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              Glaſs-Tube; and did not aſcend to fill
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              it up, till the external Air was let in upon
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              it: whereas by its eaſy and ſudden regai­
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              ning that upper part of the Tube, it </s>
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