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 <!DOCTYPE archimedes SYSTEM "../dtd/archimedes.dtd" ><archimedes>      <info>        <author>Boyle, Robert</author>        <title>New Experiments Physico-Mechanicall Touching the Air</title>        <date>1660</date>         <!DOCTYPE archimedes SYSTEM "../dtd/archimedes.dtd" ><archimedes>      <info>
          <author>Boyle, Robert</author>
          <title>New experiments physico-mechanicall, touching the spring of the air and its effects</title>
          <date>1660</date>
          <place>Oxford</place>
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  <s><emph type="center"/>NEW <lb/><emph type="italics"/>EXPERIMENTS <lb/>Phy&longs;ico-Mechanicall <lb/>Touching the Air.<emph.end type="italics"/><emph.end type="center"/></s></p><pb/><pb/><p type="main">
 <place>Oxford</place>           <translator></translator>        <lang>en</lang>              <cvs_file>boyle_exper_01_en_1660.xml</cvs_file><cvs_version>1.9</cvs_version><locator>0000000013</locator>      </info>      <text>          <front>          </front>          <body>            <chap>        <pb/><p type="main"> 
  
 <s><emph type="center"/>NEW <lb/><emph type="italics"/>EXPERIMENTS <lb/>Phy&longs;ico-Mechanicall <lb/>Touching the Air.<emph.end type="italics"/><emph.end type="center"/></s></p><pb/><p type="main"> 
  
 <s><emph type="center"/>NEW <lb/>EXPERIMENTS <lb/><emph type="italics"/>Phy&longs;ico-Mechanicall,<emph.end type="italics"/><lb/>Touching<emph.end type="center"/></s></p><p type="main"> <s><emph type="center"/>NEW <lb/>EXPERIMENTS <lb/><emph type="italics"/>Phy&longs;ico-Mechanicall,<emph.end type="italics"/><lb/>Touching<emph.end type="center"/></s></p><p type="main">
  
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 <s><emph type="center"/>By the Honorable <emph type="italics"/>Robert Boyle<emph.end type="italics"/> <expan abbr="E&longs;q;">E&longs;que</expan><emph.end type="center"/></s></p><figure></figure><p type="main"> <s><emph type="center"/>By the Honorable <emph type="italics"/>Robert Boyle<emph.end type="italics"/> <expan abbr="E&longs;q;">E&longs;que</expan><emph.end type="center"/></s></p><figure></figure><p type="main">
  
 <s><emph type="center"/><emph type="italics"/>OXFORD:<emph.end type="italics"/><lb/>Printed by <emph type="italics"/>H: Hall,<emph.end type="italics"/> Printer to the Univer&longs;ity, <lb/>for <emph type="italics"/>The: Robin&longs;on.<emph.end type="italics"/> 1660.<emph.end type="center"/></s></p><pb/><figure></figure><p type="main"> <s><emph type="center"/><emph type="italics"/>OXFORD:<emph.end type="italics"/><lb/>Printed by <emph type="italics"/>H: Hall,<emph.end type="italics"/> Printer to the Univer&longs;ity, <lb/>for <emph type="italics"/>The: Robin&longs;on.<emph.end type="italics"/> 1660.<emph.end type="center"/></s></p><pb/><pb/><figure></figure><p type="main">
  
 <s><emph type="center"/>To the Reader.<emph.end type="center"/></s></p><p type="main"> <s><emph type="center"/>To the Reader.<emph.end type="center"/></s></p><p type="main">
  
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 <s>And <lb/>perhaps that may belong to it, which I re-<emph.end type="italics"/><pb/><emph type="italics"/>member<emph.end type="italics"/> Seneca <emph type="italics"/>&longs;peaks of Nature,<emph.end type="italics"/> Initia&shy;<lb/>tos (<emph type="italics"/>&longs;ays be<emph.end type="italics"/>) nos credimus, in Ve&longs;tibulo <lb/>ejus h&aelig;remus: <emph type="italics"/>For being now in a place <lb/>where we are not quite de&longs;titute of moderate&shy;<lb/>ly skilful Artificers, we have, &longs;ince the <lb/>Conclu&longs;ion of the following Letter, made <lb/>&longs;ome Additions to our Engine, by who&longs;e help <lb/>we finde (upon &longs;ome new tryals) that we <lb/>may be able, without much of new trouble, <lb/>to keep the ambient Air out of the exhau&shy;<lb/>&longs;ted Receiver for a whole day; and perhaps <lb/>we &longs;hould be able to keep it out much longer, <lb/>if before we &longs;hall have di&longs;patch'd &longs;ome ur&shy;<lb/>gent Affairs, and publi&longs;h'd &longs;ome Papers for <lb/>which a kinde of Promi&longs;e is thought to make <lb/>us Debtors to the Pre&longs;s, we could be at lei&shy;<lb/>&longs;ure to pro&longs;ecute &longs;uch Experiments, as may <lb/>po&longs;sibly afford a Supplement to the follow&shy;<lb/>ing Treati&longs;e, from which I &longs;hall now no lon&shy;<lb/>ger detain the Reader.<emph.end type="italics"/></s></p><p type="main"> <s>And <lb/>perhaps that may belong to it, which I re-<emph.end type="italics"/><pb/><emph type="italics"/>member<emph.end type="italics"/> Seneca <emph type="italics"/>&longs;peaks of Nature,<emph.end type="italics"/> Initia&shy;<lb/>tos (<emph type="italics"/>&longs;ays be<emph.end type="italics"/>) nos credimus, in Ve&longs;tibulo <lb/>ejus h&aelig;remus: <emph type="italics"/>For being now in a place <lb/>where we are not quite de&longs;titute of moderate&shy;<lb/>ly skilful Artificers, we have, &longs;ince the <lb/>Conclu&longs;ion of the following Letter, made <lb/>&longs;ome Additions to our Engine, by who&longs;e help <lb/>we finde (upon &longs;ome new tryals) that we <lb/>may be able, without much of new trouble, <lb/>to keep the ambient Air out of the exhau&shy;<lb/>&longs;ted Receiver for a whole day; and perhaps <lb/>we &longs;hould be able to keep it out much longer, <lb/>if before we &longs;hall have di&longs;patch'd &longs;ome ur&shy;<lb/>gent Affairs, and publi&longs;h'd &longs;ome Papers for <lb/>which a kinde of Promi&longs;e is thought to make <lb/>us Debtors to the Pre&longs;s, we could be at lei&shy;<lb/>&longs;ure to pro&longs;ecute &longs;uch Experiments, as may <lb/>po&longs;sibly afford a Supplement to the follow&shy;<lb/>ing Treati&longs;e, from which I &longs;hall now no lon&shy;<lb/>ger detain the Reader.<emph.end type="italics"/></s></p><p type="main">
  
 <s><emph type="italics"/>I know<emph.end type="italics"/></s></p><pb/><figure></figure><p type="main"> <s><emph type="italics"/>I know<emph.end type="italics"/></s></p><pb/><pb/><figure></figure><p type="main">
  
 <s>Friendly Reader, </s></p><p type="main"> <s>Friendly Reader, </s></p><p type="main">
  
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 <s><emph type="italics"/>The<emph.end type="italics"/> 43. <emph type="italics"/>Experiment, touching the &longs;pontaneous E&shy;<lb/>bullition of warm Liquors in the exhau&longs;ted Receiver.<emph.end type="italics"/> 388 </s></p><p type="main"> <s><emph type="italics"/>The<emph.end type="italics"/> 43. <emph type="italics"/>Experiment, touching the &longs;pontaneous E&shy;<lb/>bullition of warm Liquors in the exhau&longs;ted Receiver.<emph.end type="italics"/> 388 </s></p><p type="main">
  
 <s><emph type="italics"/>The Conclu&longs;ion.<emph.end type="italics"/> 394 <pb/><figure id="fig2"></figure><pb/><figure id="fig3"></figure><pb/><figure id="fig4"></figure><pb/><figure id="fig5"></figure></s></p><pb pagenum="1"/><figure></figure><p type="main"> <s><emph type="italics"/>The Conclu&longs;ion.<emph.end type="italics"/> 394 <pb/><pb/><figure id="fig2"></figure><pb/><figure id="fig3"></figure><pb/><figure id="fig4"></figure><pb/><figure id="fig5"></figure></s></p><pb/><pb/><pb/><pb pagenum="1"/><figure></figure><p type="main">
  
 <s><emph type="center"/>TO THE <lb/>LORD <lb/>OF <lb/><emph type="italics"/>DUNGARVAN,<emph.end type="italics"/><lb/>My Honoured and Dear <lb/>NEPHEW.<emph.end type="center"/></s></p><p type="main"> <s><emph type="center"/>TO THE <lb/>LORD <lb/>OF <lb/><emph type="italics"/>DUNGARVAN,<emph.end type="italics"/><lb/>My Honoured and Dear <lb/>NEPHEW.<emph.end type="center"/></s></p><p type="main">
  
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 <s>For though <lb/>I may &longs;eem to have u&longs;ed &longs;ufficient cauti&shy;<lb/>on, yet afterward con&longs;idering with my <lb/>&longs;elf that the <emph type="italics"/>&AElig;olipile<emph.end type="italics"/> I had imploy'd was <lb/>a very large one, and that it required much <lb/>more care then one that has not try'd it <pb pagenum="169"/>would imagine, to drive out all the Air <lb/>from a large <emph type="italics"/>&AElig;olipile,<emph.end type="italics"/> I ea&longs;ily &longs;u&longs;pected <lb/>that the di&longs;ten&longs;ion of the Bladder in our <lb/>pneumatical Ve&longs;&longs;el, might proceed not <lb/>from the Watery &longs;teams that came out at <lb/>the narrow mouth of the <emph type="italics"/>&AElig;olipile,<emph.end type="italics"/> and <lb/>had very much wetted the Bladder, but <lb/>from the rarified Air which in that &longs;ort of <lb/>Ve&longs;&longs;els is wont for a good while together <lb/>to come out with the rarified Water: and <lb/>accordingly having reiterated the Experi&shy;<lb/>ment I found it very difficult (by rea&shy;<lb/>&longs;on of the &longs;hrinking of the Bladders (up&shy;<lb/>on their being heated) and of other impe&shy;<lb/>diments) to make it &longs;o accurately as to de&shy;<lb/>duce from it, that Water may be rarified <lb/>into true Air. </s></p><p type="margin"> <s>For though <lb/>I may &longs;eem to have u&longs;ed &longs;ufficient cauti&shy;<lb/>on, yet afterward con&longs;idering with my <lb/>&longs;elf that the <emph type="italics"/>&AElig;olipile<emph.end type="italics"/> I had imploy'd was <lb/>a very large one, and that it required much <lb/>more care then one that has not try'd it <pb pagenum="169"/>would imagine, to drive out all the Air <lb/>from a large <emph type="italics"/>&AElig;olipile,<emph.end type="italics"/> I ea&longs;ily &longs;u&longs;pected <lb/>that the di&longs;ten&longs;ion of the Bladder in our <lb/>pneumatical Ve&longs;&longs;el, might proceed not <lb/>from the Watery &longs;teams that came out at <lb/>the narrow mouth of the <emph type="italics"/>&AElig;olipile,<emph.end type="italics"/> and <lb/>had very much wetted the Bladder, but <lb/>from the rarified Air which in that &longs;ort of <lb/>Ve&longs;&longs;els is wont for a good while together <lb/>to come out with the rarified Water: and <lb/>accordingly having reiterated the Experi&shy;<lb/>ment I found it very difficult (by rea&shy;<lb/>&longs;on of the &longs;hrinking of the Bladders (up&shy;<lb/>on their being heated) and of other impe&shy;<lb/>diments) to make it &longs;o accurately as to de&shy;<lb/>duce from it, that Water may be rarified <lb/>into true Air. </s></p><p type="margin">
  
 <s><margin.target id="marg26"></margin.target><emph type="italics"/>Natural &amp; <lb/><gap/> Hi&longs;t. <lb/><gap/> In&shy;<lb/><gap/>,<emph.end type="italics"/> Lib. </s> <s><margin.target id="marg26"></margin.target><emph type="italics"/>Natural &amp; <lb/><gap/> Hi&longs;t. <lb/><gap/> In&shy;<lb/><gap/>,<emph.end type="italics"/> Lib. 3. <lb/><gap/> 9.</s></p><p type="margin">
  
 <s>3. <lb/><gap/> 9.</s></p><p type="margin"> 
  
 <s><margin.target id="marg27"></margin.target><emph type="italics"/>Geogr. </s> <s><margin.target id="marg27"></margin.target><emph type="italics"/>Geogr. </s>
  
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 <s>And <lb/>this brings into my minde that &longs;trange <lb/>Ob&longs;ervation of <emph type="italics"/>Nicolaus Fontanus,<emph.end type="italics"/> a Phy&shy;<lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg58"></arrow.to.target><lb/>&longs;itian at <emph type="italics"/>Am&longs;terdam,<emph.end type="italics"/> who te&longs;tifies, That <lb/>in a Boy of the &longs;ame Town, four years <lb/>old, there was found, in&longs;tead of Lungs, a <lb/>certain Membranous Bladder; which be&shy;<lb/>ing fill'd with Wind, and furni&longs;h'd with <lb/>little Veins, had its origination from the <lb/>Wind-Pipe it &longs;elf; which being &longs;uppo&longs;'d <lb/>true, how well it will agree with mo&longs;t of <lb/>the Opinions touching Re&longs;piration, I leave <lb/>to be con&longs;idered. </s></p><p type="margin"> <s>And <lb/>this brings into my minde that &longs;trange <lb/>Ob&longs;ervation of <emph type="italics"/>Nicolaus Fontanus,<emph.end type="italics"/> a Phy&shy;<lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg58"></arrow.to.target><lb/>&longs;itian at <emph type="italics"/>Am&longs;terdam,<emph.end type="italics"/> who te&longs;tifies, That <lb/>in a Boy of the &longs;ame Town, four years <lb/>old, there was found, in&longs;tead of Lungs, a <lb/>certain Membranous Bladder; which be&shy;<lb/>ing fill'd with Wind, and furni&longs;h'd with <lb/>little Veins, had its origination from the <lb/>Wind-Pipe it &longs;elf; which being &longs;uppo&longs;'d <lb/>true, how well it will agree with mo&longs;t of <lb/>the Opinions touching Re&longs;piration, I leave <lb/>to be con&longs;idered. </s></p><p type="margin">
  
 <s><margin.target id="marg58"></margin.target><emph type="italics"/>Fontan<gap/><lb/>apud<emph.end type="italics"/> <gap/><lb/>tholin<gap/><lb/>cap. </s> <s><margin.target id="marg58"></margin.target><emph type="italics"/>Fontan<gap/><lb/>apud<emph.end type="italics"/> <gap/><lb/>tholin<gap/><lb/>cap.
  
 <s>9.</s></p><p type="main"> 9.</s></p><p type="main">
  
 <s>And thus may the grand Objection of <lb/><emph type="italics"/>Bartholine,<emph.end type="italics"/> and others, be an&longs;wered: But <lb/>I leave to Anatomi&longs;ts to con&longs;ider what is <lb/>to be &longs;aid to &longs;ome Ob&longs;ervations that &longs;eem <lb/>to contradict tho&longs;e Anatomical Experi&shy;<lb/>ments already mention'd: Such was par&shy;<lb/>ticularly that which I remember I have <lb/>read in <emph type="italics"/>Sennertus<emph.end type="italics"/> (from the ob&longs;ervation of <lb/>his Father-in-law <emph type="italics"/>Schato<emph.end type="italics"/>) of a Melancho&shy;<lb/>ly Student, who having &longs;tabb'd him&longs;elf, <lb/>and pierced the <emph type="italics"/>Diaphragme<emph.end type="italics"/> in the thinner <lb/>or tendonous part (call'd by many the <lb/>Nervous Circle) lived &longs;even Moneths af&shy;<lb/>ter he had &longs;o wounded him&longs;elf, though af&shy;<lb/>ter his death (preceded by violent Vomit-<pb pagenum="342"/>ings) the Wound (perchance dilated by <lb/>tho&longs;e &longs;trainings) appear'd &longs;o great, that <lb/>the whole Stomack was found to have got <lb/>in by it into the left &longs;ide of the <emph type="italics"/>Thorax.<emph.end type="italics"/><lb/>And &longs;uch al&longs;o was the accident that hap&shy;<lb/>pen'd to a Noble Man, whom I remem&shy;<lb/>ber I have &longs;een, and who is yet alive, in <lb/>who&longs;e Che&longs;t there has, for the&longs;e many <lb/>years, remain'd a hole &longs;o great, that the <lb/>motion of his Heart may be perceiv'd by <lb/>it. </s> <s>And thus may the grand Objection of <lb/><emph type="italics"/>Bartholine,<emph.end type="italics"/> and others, be an&longs;wered: But <lb/>I leave to Anatomi&longs;ts to con&longs;ider what is <lb/>to be &longs;aid to &longs;ome Ob&longs;ervations that &longs;eem <lb/>to contradict tho&longs;e Anatomical Experi&shy;<lb/>ments already mention'd: Such was par&shy;<lb/>ticularly that which I remember I have <lb/>read in <emph type="italics"/>Sennertus<emph.end type="italics"/> (from the ob&longs;ervation of <lb/>his Father-in-law <emph type="italics"/>Schato<emph.end type="italics"/>) of a Melancho&shy;<lb/>ly Student, who having &longs;tabb'd him&longs;elf, <lb/>and pierced the <emph type="italics"/>Diaphragme<emph.end type="italics"/> in the thinner <lb/>or tendonous part (call'd by many the <lb/>Nervous Circle) lived &longs;even Moneths af&shy;<lb/>ter he had &longs;o wounded him&longs;elf, though af&shy;<lb/>ter his death (preceded by violent Vomit-<pb pagenum="342"/>ings) the Wound (perchance dilated by <lb/>tho&longs;e &longs;trainings) appear'd &longs;o great, that <lb/>the whole Stomack was found to have got <lb/>in by it into the left &longs;ide of the <emph type="italics"/>Thorax.<emph.end type="italics"/><lb/>And &longs;uch al&longs;o was the accident that hap&shy;<lb/>pen'd to a Noble Man, whom I remem&shy;<lb/>ber I have &longs;een, and who is yet alive, in <lb/>who&longs;e Che&longs;t there has, for the&longs;e many <lb/>years, remain'd a hole &longs;o great, that the <lb/>motion of his Heart may be perceiv'd by <lb/>it. </s>
  

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