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

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              appear'd both that there was there much
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              ſpace devoid of Air, and that the Water
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              might with ſmall or no reſiſtance have
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              aſcended into it, if it could have done ſo
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              without the impulſion of the readmitted
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              Air; which, it ſeems, was neceſſary to
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              mind the Water of its formerly neglected
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              Duty to the Univerſe. </s>
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              <s>Nay, for ought appeares, ev'n when
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              the excluded Air, aſſoon as 'twas per­
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              mitted, ruſht violently into our exhau­
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              ſted Receiver, that flowing in of the
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              Air proceeded rather from the deter­
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              minate Force of the Spring of the
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              neighbouring Air, then from any endea­
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              vour to fill up, much leſs to prevent va­
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              cuity's. </s>
              <s>For though when as much Air as
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              will, is gotten into our Receiver our pre­
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              ſent Opponents take it for granted that
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              it is full of Air; yet if it be remembred
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              that when we made our 17
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              Experiment
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              we crouded in more Air to our Receiver
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              than it uſually holds; and if we alſo con­
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              ſider (which is much more) the Air of
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              the ſame conſiſtence with that in our
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              Receiver may in wind guns, as is known,
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              and as we have try'd, be compreſſed at
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              leaſt into halfe its wonted room (I ſay at
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              leaſt, becauſe ſome affirme, that the Air </s>
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