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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London
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An extract of letters from Dr. John Wallis to the publisher, 1672. Sept. 26. &c. concerning the suspension of quick silver mell purged of air, much higher than the ordinary standard in the Torricellian Experiment

    Sir, I am not sorry to find, in your Transactions for the last Month, (which I have newly received,) that M. Hugens, an Ingenious and Inquisitive person, doth endeavour to give a Reason of that Odd phœnomenon in the Torricellian Experiment.

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