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

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              endeavour to pump out more of the Air,
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              the crack once began, appear'd to run on
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              further; though the Glaſs where it was
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              broken ſeem'd to be by conjecture above
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              ten, ſome thought above twenty times as
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              thick as the bubble mention'd in the fore­
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              going Experiment. </s>
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              <s>This will perhaps make it ſeem ſtrange,
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              that having taken another Glaſs bubble
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              blown at the ſame time, and like for
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              ought we diſcern'd for ſize, thickneſs
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              and Figure to that thin one formerly
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              mention'd; and having ſeal'd it up Her­
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              metically, and ſuſpended it in the Recei­
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              ver, the exſuction of the ambient Air did
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              not enable the impriſoned Air to break, or
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              in the leaſt to crack the bubble; though
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              the Experiment were laboriouſly try'd,
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              and that ſeveral times with bubbles of o­
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              ther ſizes: But that perhaps the heat of
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              the Candle or Lamp wherewith ſuch
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              Glaſſes are Hermetically ſeal'd, (not to
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              mention the warmth of his hands that
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              ſeal'd it) might ſo rarifie the contained
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              Air, as much to weaken its Spring, may
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              ſeem probable by the following Expe­
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              riments. </s>
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