Boyle, Robert
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New experiments physico-mechanicall, touching the spring of the air and its effects
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1660
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>For on the one ſide it appears, that not
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withſtanding the exſuction of the Air, our
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Receiver may not be deſtitute of all Bo
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dies, ſince any thing placed in it, may be
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ſeen there; which would not be, if it
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were not pervious to thoſe Beams of
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Light which rebounding from the ſeen
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Object to our eyes, affect us with the ſenſe
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of it: And that either theſe Beams are
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body, or elſe at leaſt the light they convey
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doth reſult from the brisk Motion of ſome
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ſubtle Matter, I could, if I miſtake not,
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ſufficiently manifeſt out of the Dialogues
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above-mention'd, if I thought your Lord
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ſhip could ſeriouſly imagine that Light
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could be convey'd without, at leaſt, having
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>By the ſixteenth Experiment, it alſo
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appears that the cloſeneſs of our Receiver
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hinders it not from admitting the Efflu
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via of the Load-ſtone; which makes it
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very probable that it alſo freely admits
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the Magnetical ſteams of the Earth; con
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cerning which, we have in another Trea
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tiſe endeavour'd to manifeſt that numbers
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