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

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              pect, that by the ſame means Water
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              might be brought to ſubſide in Glaſs
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              Tubes of a moderate length, though by
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              the noble Experiment, ſaid to have been
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              accurately made in
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              France
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              by
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              Monſieur
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              Paſchal,
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              we are informed that a Tube of
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              no leſs then about two and thirty Foot,
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              was found requiſite to make the Experi­
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              ment
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              De Vacuo
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              ſucceed with Water in­
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              ſtead of Quick-ſilver: ſo tall a Cylinder
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              of that lighter Liquor, being, it ſeems,
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              requiſite to equal the weight of a Mercu­
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              rial Cylinder of ſix or ſeven and twenty
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              digits, and ſurmount the preſſure of the
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              Atmoſphere. </s>
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              Experi­
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              ment
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              19.</s>
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              <s>We took then a Tube of Glaſs, Her­
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              metically ſeal'd at one end, of about four
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              foot in length, and not very ſlender: This
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              at the open end we fill'd with common
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              Water, and then ſtopt that end till we
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              had inverted the Tube, and open'd it be­
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              neath the ſurface of a quantity of the like
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              Water, contain'd in a ſomewhat deep and
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              ſlender Veſſel. </s>
              <s>This Veſſel, with the
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              Tube in it, was let down into the Recei­
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              ver, and the Receiver being cloſ'd up af­
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              ter the accuſtom'd manner, the Pump was
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              ſet awork. </s>
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