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The philosophical works of the Honourable Robert Boyle esq.: abridged, methodized, and disposed under the general heads of physics, statics, pneumatics, natural history, chymistry, and medicine (1725)

Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691, Shaw, Peter, 1694-1763. ed · London, W. and J. Innys [etc.] · leaf 516

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draulo-pneumatical engines,where water is placed between two parcels of air, the water may beput in motion, as Vv-ell by the mere dilatation of one of the parcels,as by giving a new force by heat, or compreffion, to the other. And,whether this mechanical principle of motion may not prove ufeful in… … Phj/lco-mechanical Experiments. 479 weight, fuddenly deprefs the water in the pipe, till, having driven it to ^^^i^^^^ct. the very bottom, it afcended in numerous bubbles thro* the water, and ^--^^f^^ joined it feif with the air incumbent on that liquor. Twas here obfer- vable, that all the…

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