The works of the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esq., epitomiz'd by Richard Boulton ... ; illustrated with copper plates.

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Title: The works of the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esq., epitomiz'd by Richard Boulton ... ; illustrated with copper plates.
Author: Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.
Publication: London :: Printed for J. Phillips ... and J. Taylor ...,; 1699-1700.
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Subject terms: Physics -- Early works to 1800.; Chemistry -- Early works to 1800.; Medicine -- 15th-18th centuries.
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EXPERIMENT VI.

A Mouse being weighed alive, and then strangled, tho' nothing fell from him, he seem∣ed 7/16 of a grain lighter when dead. And a young Catlin of about ten or eleven Ounces weight, lost four grains of its weight whilst a strangling, so many subtle parts being evapora∣ted by its violent Struglings. So that the com∣mon Tradition that Animals are heavier when dead than alive holds not true. To this Expe∣riment, I shall add, that having enclosed Silk-Worms Eggs, and those small Infects which turn to winged Insects, and form Gnats, in Va∣cuo, neither of them hatched or generated as in the open Air.