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

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              little by little; and conſequently, in divers
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              ſuch parcels as were able to conſtitute
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              bubbles, each of them big enough to
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              raiſe the Viol and keep it aloft until the
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              avolation of that bubble. </s>
              <s>Whereby it
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              may appear, that the grand rule in
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              Hy­
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              droſtaticks,
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              That a Body will ſwim in the
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              Water, in caſe it be lighter then as much
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              of that Water that equals it in bulk, will
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              hold likewiſe when the preſſure of the At­
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              moſphere is in very great meaſure, if not
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              when it is totally taken off from the Li­
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              quor and the Body: though it were worth
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              inquiring what it is that ſo plentifully
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              concurs to fill the bubbles made in our
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              Experiment by the ſo much expanded
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              Air, for to ſay with the old Peripatetick
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              Schools, That the Air, in Rarefaction,
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              may acquire a new extent, without the
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              admiſſion of any new ſubſtance, would
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              be an account of the
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              Phænomenon
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              very
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              much out of date, and which, I ſuppoſe,
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              our Modern Naturaliſts would neither
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              give, nor acquieſs in. </s>
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              <s>I know not whether it may be requiſite
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              to adde, that in this Experiment, as in
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              the former, the outward Air being let in
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              did ſoon precipitate the floating Viol. </s>
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              I think it will not be amiſs to note, that </s>
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