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

List of thumbnails

< >
1
1 		2
2
3
3 		4
4
5
5 		6
6
7
7 		8
8
9
9 		10
10
< >
page |< < of 862 > >|
    <archimedes>
      <text>
        <body>
          <chap>
            <p type="main">
              <s>
                <pb xlink:href="013/01/099.jpg" pagenum="59"/>
              pear'd to be a Cylinder of 5/6 parts of an
                <lb/>
              Inch in length; but when the Pipe was
                <lb/>
              taken out and turn'd upſide down, it ap­
                <lb/>
              pear'd at the other end inferior in bulk to a
                <lb/>
              Pea. </s>
            </p>
            <p type="main">
              <s>Theſe things being thus done we took
                <lb/>
              (to make the Experiment the more ex­
                <lb/>
              actly) a ſmall pair of Scales, ſuch as Gold­
                <lb/>
              Smiths uſe to weigh Gold Coyn in; and
                <lb/>
              weighing the Tube and Water in it, we
                <lb/>
              found them to amount to one Ounce thir­
                <lb/>
              ty Grains and an half: Then we pour'd in
                <lb/>
              as much Water as ſerv'd to fill up the
                <lb/>
              Tube, wherein before we had left as much
                <lb/>
              ſpace unfill'd up as was poſſeſſ'd by the
                <lb/>
              bubble; and weighing again the Pipe and
                <lb/>
              Water, we found the weight increaſ'd
                <lb/>
              onely by one Grain. </s>
              <s>Laſtly, pouring out
                <lb/>
              the Water, and carefully freeing the Pipe
                <lb/>
              from it (which yet we could not perfectly
                <lb/>
              doe) we weighed the Glaſs alone, and
                <lb/>
              found it to want two Drachmes and thirty
                <lb/>
              two Grains of its former weight: So
                <lb/>
              that the bubble of Air taking up the room
                <lb/>
              but of one Grain in weight of Water, it
                <lb/>
              appear'd that the Air by its own
                <foreign lang="grc">ἐλιτὴρ</foreign>
                <lb/>
              was ſo rarified, as to take up one hundred
                <lb/>
              fifty two times as much room as it did be­
                <lb/>
              fore: though it were then compreſſ'd by </s>
            </p>
          </chap>
        </body>
      </text>
    </archimedes>
Impressum