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 IX.

We took a Glass Tube sealed at one end, and putting a piece of shining-Wood into it, we propped it with a Cork, to keep it from fal∣ling out; which being done, we inverted the open end of the Tube into stagnant Mercury, and conveying it into a Receiver, we exhausted the Air, that that in the Pipe by expanding it self, might make its way out, through the Quick-silver; which being done, we observed, that the Wood which lost its Light in the rari∣fied Air, recover'd it again, when by the Pres∣sure of the external Air the Mercury was buoy∣ed up within two Inches of the Wood, the rari∣fy'd Air being thereby condensed again.