Archimedes Texts

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throughout; we caus'd it in the lately
mention'd Wier, to be speedily convey'd
and shut up into the Receiver, being de
sirous to try what would become of a
glowing Body, by reason of its texture
more vehemently hot then a burning
Coal of the same bigness, & yet unlike to
send forth such copious & stifling Fumes:
But we could not observe any manifest
change upon the exsuction of the Air.
The Iron began indeed to lose its Fiery
redness at the top, but that seem'd to be
because it was it the upper end somewhat
more slender then at the lower: The red
ness, though it were in the day time, con
tinued visible about four minutes; and
then, before it did quite dis-appear, we
turn'd the Key of the Stop-cock but
could not discern any change of the Iron
upon the rushing in of the Air. Yet some
little remainders of Wax that stuck to
the Wier, and were turn'd into Fumes by
the heat of the neighboring Iron, seem'd
to afford a more plentiful, or at least a
much more free expanded smoke when
the Air was suck'd out, then afterwards;
though allowance was made for the de
creasing heat of the Iron. And lastly,
notwithstanding a considerable exsuction