Boyle, Robert
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New experiments physico-mechanicall, touching the spring of the air and its effects
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1660
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that it may be well doubted whether the
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obſervation, by reaſon of the great diffi
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culty have been exactly made, there is a
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manifeſt diſparity betwixt the Air and
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Water: For I have not found, that upon
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an Experiment purpoſely made, (and in
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another Treatiſe Recorded) that Water
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will ſuffer any conſiderable compreſſion;
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whereas we may obſerve in Wind-Guns
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(to mention now no other Engines) that
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the Air will ſuffer it ſelf to be crouded in
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to a comparatively very little room; in
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ſo much, that a very diligent Examiner
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of the
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Phænomena
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of Wind-Guns would
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have us believe, that in one of them, by
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condenſation, he reduc'd the Air into a
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ſpace at leaſt eight times narrower then it
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a noble
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of the Experiment
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De Vacuo;
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theſe things put together, may
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Monſieur
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Paſcal
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(the Son) had the com
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mendable Curioſity to cauſe the
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Torri
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Experiment to be try'd at the foot,
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about the middle, and at the top of that
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high Mountain (in
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Auvergne,
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if I miſtake
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not) commonly call'd
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Le Puy de Domme;
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whereby it was found, That the
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