A continuation of new experiments physico-mechanical, touching the spring and weight of the air and their effects. The I. part whereto is annext a short discourse of the atmospheres of consistent bodies / written by way of letter to the right honourable the Lord Clifford and Dungarvan by the honourable Robert Boyle ...

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Title: A continuation of new experiments physico-mechanical, touching the spring and weight of the air and their effects. The I. part whereto is annext a short discourse of the atmospheres of consistent bodies / written by way of letter to the right honourable the Lord Clifford and Dungarvan by the honourable Robert Boyle ...
Author: Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.
Publication: Oxford :: Printed by Henry Hall ... for Richard Davis,; 1669.
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Subject terms: Air.; Air-pump.; Physics -- Experiments.
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The II. Tryal.

2. This done, to shew that there needed not the Spring of so great a quantity of included Air to break such Glasses, we took a∣nother Roundish one, which, though wide enough at the Orifice to cover the Brass Ring & the new Glass-plate that we had cemen∣ted on it, was yet so low, that we estimated it to hold but a 6^th part of what the large Receiver, formerly imploy'd, is able to contain; and having whelm'd this smaller vessel, which was shap'd like those Cups they call Tumblers, over the Metalline Recei∣ver, and well fasten'd it to the Engine with Cement, we found that though this External Receiver had a great part of its Cavity fill'd by the included one, yet when this Internal one was exhau∣sted by an Exuction or two, the Spring of the little Air that re∣main'd, was able to break the Plate into a multitude of frag∣ments.