Boyle, Robert, New experiments physico-mechanicall, touching the spring of the air and its effects, 1660

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              eminent Modern Writers, who will not
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              allow the Atmoſphere to exceed above
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              two or three Miles in height (as the Fa­
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              mous K
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              epler
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              will not the
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              Aër refractivus
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              )
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              and to have rendred a reaſon why in the
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              mention we made in the Notes upon the
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              firſt Experiment, touching the height of
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              the Atmoſphere, we ſcrupled not to ſpeak
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              of it, as if it might be many Miles high. </s>
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              <s>WE will now proceed to recite a
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              Phænomenon,
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              which, though
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              made amongſt the firſt, we thought fit
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              not to mention till after many others, that
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              we might have the opportunity to ob­
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              ſerve as many Circumſtances of it as we
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              could, and ſo preſent Your Lordſhip at
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              once, moſt of what we at ſeveral times
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              have taken notice of concerning ſo odde
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              a
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              Phænomenon.
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              Experi­
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              37.</s>
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              <s>Our Engine had not been long finiſh'd,
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              when, at the firſt leaſure we could ſteal
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              from our occaſions to make tryal of it,
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              we cauſ'd the Air to be pump'd out of
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              the Receiver; and whil'ſt I was buſied in
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              entertaining a Learned Friend that juſt
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              then came to viſit me, an Ingenious By-</s>
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