New experiments physico-mechanical, touching the air

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Title
New experiments physico-mechanical, touching the air
Author
Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.
Publication
[London :: Printed by Miles Flesher for Richard Davis, bookseller in Oxford,
1682]
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Subject terms
Line, Francis, 1595-1675. -- Tractatus de corporum inseparabilitate.
Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679. -- Dialogus physicus.
Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691 -- Bibliography.
Air -- Early works to 1800.
Air-pump -- Early works to 1800.
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"New experiments physico-mechanical, touching the air." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A29007.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 19, 2025.

Pages

CHAP. IV.

A repetition of Franciscus Linus his principal Experiment, wherein in a Tube of twenty Inches long the Finger on the top is supposed to be strongly drawn and suck'd into the Tube, p. 8. The Experiment explicated without the assistance of Suction, by the pressure of the external Air upon the outside of the Finger, thrust, not suck'd in, p. 9. Franciscus Linus his argumen∣tation considered, p. 10.

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