Editing Robert Boyle (section)

==== Vacuum pump ====
To Boyle, [[Otto von Guericke#Air pressure and the vacuum|Guericke's vacuum pump]] had two important limitations. Firstly, its evacuation required "the continual labour of two strong men for divers hours",<ref name="Boyle 1660" /> and secondly, "the Receiver, or Glass to be empty'd, consisting of one entire and uninterrupted Globe ... of Glass ... is so made, that things cannot be convey'd into it".<ref name="Boyle 1660" /> Hooke constructed a pump that could be operated on a desktop, and conveniently opened to insert candles, mice, birds, bells, pendulums, and other research objects.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=West |first=John B. |date=2005 |title=Robert Boyle’s landmark book of 1660 with the first experiments on rarified air |url=https://journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10.1152/japplphysiol.00759.2004 |journal=Journal of Applied Physiology |language=en |volume=98 |issue=1 |pages=31-39 |doi=10.1152/japplphysiol.00759.2004}}</ref> With Hooke's pump, Boyle began a series of experiments on the properties of air.<ref name="acottLaw" /><ref name="EB1911" /> An account of Boyle's work with the pump was published in 1660 under the title ''New Experiments Physico-Mechanical, Touching the Spring of the Air, and its Effects''.<ref name="Boyle 16602">{{Cite book |last=Boyle |first=Robert |url=https://archive.org/details/chepfl-lipr-AXA74/page/n9/ |title=New experiments physico-mechanicall, touching the spring of the air, and its effects (made, for the most part, in a new pneumatical engine): Written by way of letter to the Right Honorable Charles, Lord Vicount of Dungarvan, eldest son to the Earl of Corke |date=1660 |publisher=Printed by H. Hall for Tho. Robinson |pages= |language=en}}</ref>