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

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              ſeem'd to knock upon it and rebound
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              from it: Which Circumſtances we adde,
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              partly that the
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              Phænomenon
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              we have been
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              relating may not be imputed to the
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              bare ſubſiding of the Water that fill'd
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              the Tube, upon the taking off the preſ­
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              ſure of the ambient Air. </s>
              <s>And partly al­
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              ſo that it may appear that if our Expe­
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              riments have not been as accurately made
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              as with fitter Inſtruments might perhaps
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              be poſſible; yet the expanſion of the
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              Air is likely to be rather greater then
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              leſſer then we have made it: Since the
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              Air was able to preſs away the Water at
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              the bottom of the Pipe, though that were
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              about two Inches below the ſurface of the
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              Water that was then in the Viol, and
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              would have been at leaſt as high in the
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              Pipe, if the Water had onely ſubſided and
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              not been depreſſed: So that it ſeems not
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              unlikely that if the Experiment could be
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              ſo made, as that the expanſion of the Air
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              might not be reſiſted by the Neighboring
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              Bodies, it would yet inlarge its bounds,
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              and perhaps ſtretch it ſelf to two hundred
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              times its former bulk, if not more. </s>
              <s>How­
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              ever, what we have now try'd will, I hope,
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              ſuffice to hinder divers of the
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              of our Engine from being diſtruſted: </s>
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