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 the more eaſie underſtanding of the
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Experiments tryable by our Engine, I
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thought it not ſuperfluous, nor unſeaſon
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able in the recital of this firſt of them, to
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eaſily ſuppoſe, that the Notion I ſpeak
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of is, That there is a Spring, or Elaſti
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cal power in the Air we live in. </
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or Spring of the Air, that which
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I mean is this: That our Air either con
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ſiſts of, or at leaſt abounds with, parts of
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ſuch a nature, that in caſe they be bent or
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compreſſ'd by the weight of the incum
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bent part of the Atmoſphere, or by any o
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ther Body, they do endeavor, as much as
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in them lies, to free themſelves from that
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preſſure, by bearing againſt the contigu
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ous Bodies that keep them bent; and,
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aſſoon as thoſe Bodies are remov'd or
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reduced to give them way, by preſently
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unbending and ſtretching out themſelves,
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either quite, or ſo far forth as the con
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tiguous Bodies that reſiſt them will per
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mit, and thereby expanding the whole
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parcel of Air, theſe elaſtical Bodies com
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