Theatrum naturae et artis

...not overflowing: water, after a certain quantity of common salt has been dissolved, still dissolves many other types of salts.

(b) That it is made by art from thicker air is conceded, partly momentaneum momentary, in exploded military ordnance, partly permanens permanent in the pila Heronis Hero's ball/fountain, from which air is sucked out by mouth and water subsequently succeeds into its place: and the antlia pneumatica Magdeburgica Magdeburg air pump. Once the structure of this machine is shown, experiments of every kind are displayed by means of it: namely, when enough air has been ejected, water is suddenly pushed into the receiver or bell-jar, as is flour, although not in such abundance: a square glass placed on a sphere and exhausted of air is compressed: a compressed bladder suspended in the bell-jar is inflated: living beings in it either lose their life or suffer other things, such as birds, mice, frogs, and fish in water and outside of it, etc. The fire of a candle is extinguished; it consumes more material in free air than in a vacuum: smoke descends: good beer froths: water and wine eject bubbles, and other liquids present other phenomena. We see things no less marvelous in chemical spirits, especially rectified spirit of nitre, etc. Sound in a clock or bell is gradually diminished, etc.