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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the Receiver, the Quick-ſilver in the Tube
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would aſcend much above the wonted
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height of 27 digits, and immediatly up
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on the letting out of that Air would fall a
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>Your Lordſhip will here perhaps expect,
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that as thoſe who have treated of the
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Experiment, have for the moſt
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part maintaind the Affirmative, or the Ne
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gative of that famous Queſtion, Whether
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or no that Noble Experiment infer a
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ſo I ſhould on this occaſion inter
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poſe my Opinion touching that Contro
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verſie, or at leaſt declare whether or no, in
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our Engine, the exſuction of the Air do
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prove the place deſerted by the Air ſuck'd
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out, to be truly empty, that is, devoid of
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I have neither the leiſure, nor the ability,
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to enter into a ſolemn Debate of ſo nice a
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Queſtion; Your Lordſhip may, if you
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think it worth the trouble, in the Dia
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logues not long ſince referr'd to, finde the
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Difficulties on both ſides repreſented;
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which then made me yield but a very wa
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vering aſſent to either of the parties con
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tending about the Queſtion: Nor dare I
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yet take upon me to determine ſo difficult
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