| Boyle, Robert New experiments physico-mechanicall, touching the spring of the air and its effects 1660 |
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The seventeenth Experiment, touching the
gradual descent of the Quick-silver in the
Torricellian Experiment, 106 &c. Some
observable Circumstances concerning it,
112 &c. The same Experiment try'd in
one of the small Receivers, 115. How
this Experiment may be made use of to know
the strength of the pressure of the Air for
every degree of Rarefaction, 116 &c. The
tryal of the same Experiment in a Tube not
two foot long, 118. The raising of the Mer
curial Cylinder, by the forcing of more Air
into the Receiver, 119. Some Allegations
for and against a Vacuum consider'd, 120
&c. Some Advertisements concerning the
inconveniencies that may arise from the di
versity of measures made use of for the defi
ning the Altitute of the Mercurial Cylinder;
and from the neglect of little parcels of Air
apt to remain between the Mercury and the
concave surface of the Tube, 123 &c. Some
Expedients for the more exact filling the
Tube, 127. The height the Author once found
of the Mercurial Cylinder, according to En
glish measure. 128.
The eighteenth Experiment, containing
a new Observation touching the variation
of the height of the Mercurial Cylinder in
the same Tube, with an osser at the reason
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