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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Page 155

EXPERIMENTS XVII, and XVIII.

* 1.1Tho' it is usually thought, That the Parts of Water are Spherical, in falling Rain; yet since Hail, which is nothing but Drops of Water froze, and often of a Figure different from Orbicular; to be further satisfy'd concerning their Figures, we conveigh'd several Portions of Water into Oyl of Cloves, and found, that one which was as big as a Pea, was so near an Orbicular Fi∣gure, as to approach an Elliptical one; and other Portions of Water, which were larger, were somewhat Elliptical, but rather more depress'd in the middle; and these Phaenomena were afford∣ed by those Portions of Water which were only contiguous to the Oyl and Air.

Notes

* 1.1

Of Water included in Oyl.

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