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

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              three Inches in Diameter (for, as it was
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              ſaid in the deſcription of our Engine, the
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              cavity of the Cylinder was no broader)
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              was able, uncompreſſ'd, not only to ſuſtain,
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              but even to drive up a weight of an hun­
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              dred and odde pounds: for beſides the
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              weight of the whole Sucker it ſelf, which
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              amounts to ſome pounds, the weights an­
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              nexed to it made up a hundred and three
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              pounds, beſides an Iron Bar, that by con­
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              jecture weighed two pounds more; and
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              yet all theſe together fall ſomewhat ſhort
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              of the weight which we lately mention'd,
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              the reſiſtance of the Air to have held ſu­
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              ſpended in the cavity of the Cylinder. </s>
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              <s>And though (as hath been already ac­
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              knowledg'd) we cannot, peradventure,
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              obtain by the recited means ſo exact an
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              account as were to be wiſh'd, of what we
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              would diſcover: Yet, if it ſerve us to
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              ground Conjectures more approaching to
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              the Truth, then we have hitherto met
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              with, I hope it will be conſider'd (which
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              a famous Poet judiciouſly ſays) </s>
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              Eſt quoddam prodire tenus, ſi non da­
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              tur ultra.
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              <s>Peradventure it will not be imperti-</s>
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