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

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              ſure of the outward againſt the ſame Glaſs.
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              <s>And we ſee in bubles, that by reaſon of
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              this an exceeding thin film of Water is
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              often able, for a good while, to hinder the
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              eruption of a pretty quantity of Air. </s>
              <s>And
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              this may be alſo more conſpicuous in
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              thoſe great Spherical bubles that boyes
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              ſometimes blow with Water, to which
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              Sope has given a Tenacity. </s>
              <s>But that, if the
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              preſſure of the ambient Air were remov'd,
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              the internal Air may be able to break
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              thicker Glaſſes then thoſe lately men­
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              tion'd, will appear by ſome of the follow­
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              ing Experiments; to which we ſhall there­
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              fore now haſten, having, I fear, been but
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              too prolix in this Excurſion, though we
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              thought it not amiſs to annex to our firſt
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              Experiments ſome general Conſiderati­
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              ons touching the Spring of the Air, be­
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              cauſe (this Doctrine being yet a ſtranger
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              to the Schools) not onely we finde not
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              the thing it ſelf to be much taken notice
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              of; but of thoſe few that have heard of it,
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              the greater part have been forward to re­
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              ject it, upon a miſtaken Perſwaſion, that
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              thoſe
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              Phænomena
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              are the effects of natures
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              abhorrency of a
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              Vacuum,
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              which ſeem to
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              be more fitly aſcribeable to the weight
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              and Spring of the Air. </s>
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