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

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              Boyling of the Sun's own
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              ſuperficies
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              di­
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              verſe eminent Mathematicians have plau­
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              ſibly enough (but how truly I leave
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              your Lordſhip to Judge) endeavour'd to
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              give an Account of it. </s>
              <s>But if we will joine
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              with thoſe that have aſcrib'd of late this
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              Phænomenon
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              to the Refraction the Sun­
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              Beames fuffer in our vapid Air; we may,
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              as hath been intimated, promote their Do­
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              ctrin by deducing from it, that probably
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              the ſurface Atmoſphere is oftentimes (if
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              not alwayes) exceedingly curl'd or wav'd.
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              <s>And certainly it is ſomewhat wonderfull
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              as well as very pleaſant to behold, how,
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              to him that looks upon the ſetting Sun
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              through a long & excellent Teleſcope,
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              there will not only appeare ſtrange ine­
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              qualities in the edge of it (inſomuch that
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              I have often ſeen it more indented than a
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              Saw) but thoſe inequalities will vaniſh in
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              one place and preſently appeare in ano­
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              ther, and ſeem perfectly to move like
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              waves ſucceeding and deſtroying one an­
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              other; ſave that their Motion oftentimes
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              ſeemes to be quickeſt as if in that vaſt ſea
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              they were carried on by a current, or at
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              leaſt by a tide. </s>
              <s>And this (as we elſe
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              where note) appear's to the eye not on­
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              ly when it looks directly through the te-</s>
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