. 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. as the glafs-bubble, in the laft experiment; and, not-withftanding the great leaden-weight that refted upon the plug, it efcapedwithout the leaft crack. And, to fhew that what we obfervd about the nature of the compref-fure of fluid bodies, will hold as well in water as air ; we put an hensegg into a limber bladder, almoft full of water; and tying the neck veryftrait, that nothing might get in or out
. 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. as the glafs-bubble, in the laft experiment; and, not-withftanding the great leaden-weight that refted upon the plug, it efcapedwithout the leaft crack. And, to fhew that what we obfervd about the nature of the compref-fure of fluid bodies, will hold as well in water as air ; we put an hensegg into a limber bladder, almoft full of water; and tying the neck veryftrait, that nothing might get in or out, we fo placed the bladder in thebrafs-cylinder, that the egg might not be immediately touched by anything that was hard ,• then putting the plug into the cylinder, we v/arilyand leifurely heaped upon it convenient weights of lead, till they amount-ed to about feventy-five pounds : notwithftanding all which, the egg wastaken out found, and uncrackd; and, probably, might have fupported amuch greater preffure. Nor were eggs the only bodies we endeavoured to crufh after this man-ner : the trial having been, alfo, made upon, a piece o£ butter, of a veryirregular Ihape, it came out Bbb2 AN (37i) A N
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