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

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              there had in readineſs a round and hollow
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              Veſſel of Pewter, great enough to con­
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              tain two pounds of Water, and exactly
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              cloſe every where, but at one little hole
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              where it was to be fill'd; then partly by
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              ſucking out the Air, and partly by inject­
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              ing Water with a Syringe, it was (not
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              without ſome difficulty) fill'd up to the
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              top; and that hole being plac'd directly
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              upwards, there was a little more Water
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              leiſurely forc'd in by the Syringe. </s>
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              which, though the Veſſel were permitted
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              to reſt, and the hole kept in its former po­
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              ſture, yet the compreſſ'd Water leiſurely
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              ſwell'd above the Orifice of the hole, and
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              divers drops ran over along the ſides of the
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              Veſſel. </s>
              <s>After this, we cauſ'd a skilful Pew­
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              terer (who had made the Globe) to cloſe
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              it up in our preſence with Soder ſo exqui­
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              ſitely, that none ſuſpected there was any
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              thing left in it beſides Water. </s>
              <s>And laſt­
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              ly, the Veſſel thus ſoder'd up, was wari­
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              ly and often ſtruck in divers places with a
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              Wooden Mallet, and thereby was mani­
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              feſtly compreſſ d, whereby the incloſed
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              Water was crouded into leſs room then it
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              had before: And thereupon when we took
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              a Needle, and with it and the Mallet per­
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              forated the Veſſel, and drew out the </s>
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