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

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              have been in the open Air. </s>
              <s>And on di­
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              vers other occaſions it appear'd that the
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              ſounds created within our exhauſted
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              Glaſs, if they were not loſt before they
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              reach'd the Ear, ſeem'd at leaſt to arrive
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              there very much weaken'd. </s>
              <s>We intended
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              to try whether or no the Wire-ſtring of an
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              Inſtrument ſhut up into our Receiver,
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              would, when the ambient Air was ſuck'd
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              out, at all tremble, if in another Inſtrument
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              held cloſe to it, but without the Receiver
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              a ſtring tun'd (as Muſicians ſpeak, how
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              properly I now examine not) to an Uniſon
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              with it, were briskly toucht, and ſet a Vi­
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              brating. </s>
              <s>This, I ſay, we purpoſ'd to try
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              to ſee how the motion made in the Air
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              without, would be propagated through the
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              cavity of our evacuated Receiver. </s>
              <s>But
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              when the Inſtrument wherewith the tryal
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              was to be made came to be imploy'd, it
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              prov'd too big to go into the Pneumatical
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              Veſſel, and we have not now the conveni­
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              ency to have a fitter made. </s>
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              <s>We thought likewiſe to convey into
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              the Receiver a long and ſlender pair of
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              Bellows, made after the faſhion of thoſe
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              uſually employ'd to blow Organs, and fur­
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              niſh'd with a ſmall Muſical inſtead of an </s>
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