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wth. wind the string became helicall & shortned being
vpon twisted about the gutt but when the gutt was sufferd
to empt it self of the air the string lengthned & became
straight & the gutt twisted about it in a helicall figure
. . . He propounded also An experiment for the next
Day to shew how the motion of the muscle would be -
explaind supposing the said fibers to be (like a neck
lace of hollow glasse beads which it Represented) a string
of small bladders Ioyned together by the necks - -



After this mor Pappin who was admitted to be present at the
meeting shewd the Company an experiment of a windgun of
his own making and contriuance the effect of wch. was -

Ref: CELL/RS/HF_196  © Centre for Editing Lives and Letters