| Boyle, Robert New experiments physico-mechanicall, touching the spring of the air and its effects 1660 |
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deal of Air and Smoke mixt together was
drawn out, whereby the Receiver grow
ing more clear, we could discern the Fire
in the Match to burn more and more lan
guidly: And notwithstanding that by the
diligence us'd in Pumping, it seem'd to
have room enough allow'd it to throw
out Fumes; yet after no long time it
ceas'd from being discernable either by its
Light or its Smoke.
And though by
that we were invited to suppose it quite
extinguished, yet we continu'd pumping
a while, in prosecution of another Expe
riment we were trying at the same time:
And this we did the more willingly be
cause of a suspicion the Experiment a
bout the Coals might easily suggest, and
which the event declar'd not to have been
altogether groundless.
For upon the
Admission of the external Air, the Fire,
that seem'd to have gone out a pretty
while before, did presently revive; and
being as it were refresh d by the new Air,
and blown by the Wind made by that
Air in rushing in, it began again to shine
and dissipate the neighboring Fuel into
Smoke as formerly.
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