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

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              The ſeventeenth Experiment, touching the
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              gradual deſcent of the Quick-ſilver in the
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              Torricellian Experiment,
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              106 &c.
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              Some
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              obſervable Circumſtances concerning it,
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              112 &c.
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              The ſame Experiment try'd in
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              one of the ſmall Receivers,
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              115.
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              How
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              this Experiment may be made uſe of to know
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              the ſtrength of the preſſure of the Air for
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              every degree of Rarefaction,
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              116 &c.
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              The
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              tryal of the ſame Experiment in a Tube not
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              two foot long,
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              118.
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              The raiſing of the Mer­
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              curial Cylinder, by the forcing of more Air
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              into the Receiver,
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              119.
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              Some Allegations
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              for and againſt a
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              Vacuum
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              conſider'd,
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              120
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              &c.
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              Some Advertiſements concerning the
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              inconveniencies that may ariſe from the di­
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              verſity of meaſures made uſe of for the defi­
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              ning the Altitute of the Mercurial Cylinder;
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              and from the neglect of little parcels of Air
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              apt to remain between the Mercury and the
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              concave ſurface of the Tube,
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              123 &c.
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              Some
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              Expedients for the more exact filling the
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              Tube,
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              127.
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              The height the Author once found
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              of the Mercurial Cylinder, according to En­
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              gliſh meaſure.
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              The eighteenth Experiment, containing
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              a new Obſervation touching the variation
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              of the height of the Mercurial Cylinder in
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              the ſame Tube, with an oſſer at the reaſon
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