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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cumſtance of the three and Thirtieth,
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that the Sucker was by the preſſure of the
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Ambient Air impell'd upwards, with its
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gar Axiom receiv'd for ſo many Ages
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as an undoubted Truth in the Peripate
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tick Schools; That Nature abhorres
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