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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that the included ſubſtance might not get
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try whether or no that which in part di
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ſtended the Bladder would appear by its
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Spring to be true Air: whereby we found
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that upon the exſuction of the ambient
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Air, the included ſubſtance expanded it
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out the Bladder, we ſuffer'd it to remain
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ty'd up till next morning, to try whether
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time, and the coldneſs of the night, would
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make the contain'd ſubſtance relapſe in
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remember, I ſay, that I once made this
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Experiment; but I might ſay in anſwer
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to it, that the chief reaſon of my men
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tioning it, is, To let Your Lordſhip ſee
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how requiſite it is to be circumſpect and
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