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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worth while to try to vary, by means of
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the compreſſion of the Air. </
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things, when we diſcourſ'd of our
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firſt Experiment, That the Air ſhut up in
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our Receiver, preſſeth as ſtrongly upon
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the Bodies ſhut up with it, as if they
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were expoſ'd to the preſſure of the whole
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ſiderately propounded, we hope Your
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Lordſhip has gather'd from divers of the
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things already recited: But yet perhaps it
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will not be amiſs to ſubjoyn, by way of
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further confirmation of the ſame truth, the
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following Experiment, which ſhould have
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Glaſs Viol, capable of holding about 6 or
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7 ounces of Water, into which we had
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before put 2 or 3 Spoon-fulls of that Li
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quor, and ſtopt it cloſe with a fit Cork.
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>The Pneumatical Veſſel being empty'd,
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there appear'd not any change in the in
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cloſ'd Water, the Air impriſon'd with it,
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