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| | <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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| <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/><pb/><p type="main"> |
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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/><p type="main"> | |
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| <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"> |
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| <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"> |
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| <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<lb/>tos (<emph type="italics"/>&longs;ays be<emph.end type="italics"/>) nos credimus, in Ve&longs;tibulo <lb/>ejus hæremus: <emph type="italics"/>For being now in a place <lb/>where we are not quite de&longs;titute of moderate­<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<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<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<lb/>&longs;ure to pro&longs;ecute &longs;uch Experiments, as may <lb/>po&longs;sibly afford a Supplement to the follow­<lb/>ing Treati&longs;e, from which I &longs;hall now no lon­<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<lb/>tos (<emph type="italics"/>&longs;ays be<emph.end type="italics"/>) nos credimus, in Ve&longs;tibulo <lb/>ejus hæremus: <emph type="italics"/>For being now in a place <lb/>where we are not quite de&longs;titute of moderate­<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<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<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<lb/>&longs;ure to pro&longs;ecute &longs;uch Experiments, as may <lb/>po&longs;sibly afford a Supplement to the follow­<lb/>ing Treati&longs;e, from which I &longs;hall now no lon­<lb/>ger detain the Reader.<emph.end type="italics"/></s></p><p type="main"> |
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| <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"> |
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| <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<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<lb/>bullition of warm Liquors in the exhau&longs;ted Receiver.<emph.end type="italics"/> 388 </s></p><p type="main"> |
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| <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"> |
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| <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<lb/>on, yet afterward con&longs;idering with my <lb/>&longs;elf that the <emph type="italics"/>Æolipile<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"/>Æolipile,<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"/>Æolipile,<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<lb/>ment I found it very difficult (by rea­<lb/>&longs;on of the &longs;hrinking of the Bladders (up­<lb/>on their being heated) and of other impe­<lb/>diments) to make it &longs;o accurately as to de­<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<lb/>on, yet afterward con&longs;idering with my <lb/>&longs;elf that the <emph type="italics"/>Æolipile<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"/>Æolipile,<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"/>Æolipile,<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<lb/>ment I found it very difficult (by rea­<lb/>&longs;on of the &longs;hrinking of the Bladders (up­<lb/>on their being heated) and of other impe­<lb/>diments) to make it &longs;o accurately as to de­<lb/>duce from it, that Water may be rarified <lb/>into true Air. </s></p><p type="margin"> |
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| <s><margin.target id="marg26"></margin.target><emph type="italics"/>Natural & <lb/><gap/> Hi&longs;t. <lb/><gap/> In­<lb/><gap/>,<emph.end type="italics"/> Lib. </s> | <s><margin.target id="marg26"></margin.target><emph type="italics"/>Natural & <lb/><gap/> Hi&longs;t. <lb/><gap/> In­<lb/><gap/>,<emph.end type="italics"/> Lib. 3. <lb/><gap/> 9.</s></p><p type="margin"> |
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| <s>3. <lb/><gap/> 9.</s></p><p type="margin"> | |
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| <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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