Boyle, Robert, New experiments physico-mechanicall, touching the spring of the air and its effects, 1660
page |< < of 862 > >|
    <archimedes>
      <text>
        <body>
          <chap>
            <p type="main">
              <s>
                <pb xlink:href="013/01/107.jpg" pagenum="67"/>
              the Neighboring ſide of the Receiver, it
                <lb/>
              not onely dafh'd it ſelf to pieces, but
                <lb/>
              crack'd the very Receiver in many places,
                <lb/>
              with a great noiſe that much ſurpriſed all
                <lb/>
              that were in the Room. </s>
              <s>But it ſeem'd
                <lb/>
              that in ſo little a Receiver, the Air about
                <lb/>
              the Viol being ſuddenly drawn out, the
                <lb/>
              Air Impriſon'd in the Veſſel, having on
                <lb/>
              it the whole preſſure of the Atmoſphere
                <lb/>
              (to which by the Pipe open at both ends,
                <lb/>
              It and the Water were expoſ'd) and not
                <lb/>
              having on the other ſide the wonted preſ­
                <lb/>
              ſure of the Ambient Air to ballance that
                <lb/>
              other preſſure, the reſiſtance of the Glaſs
                <lb/>
              was finally ſurmounted, and the Viol once
                <lb/>
              beginning to break where it was weakeſt,
                <lb/>
              the external Air might ruſh in with vio­
                <lb/>
              lence enough to throw the crack'd parcel
                <lb/>
              ſo forcibly againſt the Neighboring ſide
                <lb/>
              of the Receiver, as to break that too. </s>
            </p>
            <p type="main">
              <s>And this may be preſumed ſufficient to
                <lb/>
              verifie what we delivered in that part of
                <lb/>
              our Appendix to the firſt Experiment,
                <lb/>
              where we mention'd the almoſt equal
                <lb/>
              preſſure of the Air on either ſide of a
                <lb/>
              thin Glaſs Veſſel, as the cauſe of its not
                <lb/>
              being broken by the forcible Spring of
                <lb/>
              the contain'd Air. </s>
              <s>But yet that it be not
                <lb/>
              ſuſpected that chance had an intereſt in ſo </s>
            </p>
          </chap>
        </body>
      </text>
    </archimedes>
Impressum