. The philosophical works of the Honourable Robert Boyle esq.: abridged, methodized, and disposed under the general heads of physics, statics, pneumatics, natural history, chymistry, and medicine. voLn. rL/:j Phyfico-mechanical Experiments. 5(5j Cthefprlngdeprefling the valve. ^ V^^^^^k^ H, a gnomon affixed to the globe AA, and making faft the fprlng G. ^-^y^^ CC, a tube of iron, faftned to the tube BB, and the globe AA. DD, a plug exadlly fitted to the tube. EEE, another plug fitted alfo to the tuber BB, with an iron wire, reach-ing almoft to the valve F. R, the protuberance of the tub
. The philosophical works of the Honourable Robert Boyle esq.: abridged, methodized, and disposed under the general heads of physics, statics, pneumatics, natural history, chymistry, and medicine. voLn. rL/:j Phyfico-mechanical Experiments. 5(5j Cthefprlngdeprefling the valve. ^ V^^^^^k^ H, a gnomon affixed to the globe AA, and making faft the fprlng G. ^-^y^^ CC, a tube of iron, faftned to the tube BB, and the globe AA. DD, a plug exadlly fitted to the tube. EEE, another plug fitted alfo to the tuber BB, with an iron wire, reach-ing almoft to the valve F. R, the protuberance of the tube CC, fomewhat hollowed above, to re-ceive the end of the iron LL. LL, a crooked iron, moveable about the extremity in R, fo that itferves as a lever to lift up the plug EEE. OPO, a crooked iron, faftned in M, that the thumb refting in the angleP, the reft of the fingers may attract the lever L, and fo force the plugEEE, upwards. But the curvature is defignd, that the one end O, mightbe applied to the fhoulder, in aiming at a mark. TT a reftangular piece of iron, compafling the lever LL and the ironOPO, to keep the lever in its pofture; for, otherwife, the plug EEE,would be thruft far out, whilf
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