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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of the Pipe, was put into one of our ſmall
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Receivers, (containing between a Pint
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and a Quart) in ſuch manner as that the
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Glaſs Pipe, paſſing through a hole made
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purpoſely for it in the Leaden-Cover of
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the Receiver, was for the moſt part of it
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without the Veſſel, which being exactly
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cloſed, the Pump was ſet awork: But at
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the very firſt exſuction, and before the
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