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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vals, or the abſence of the Corrector, gave
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all their Imperfections; becauſe, as the
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publick Affairs, and my own, were then
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circumſtanc'd, I knew not when (if at all)
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I ſhould be again in a condition to proſecute
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Experiments of this kinde; eſpecially,
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ſince (to omit my being almoſt weary of be
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ing, as it were, confin'd to one ſort of Ex
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periments) I am pre-ingag'd (if it pleaſe
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God to vouchſafe me Life and Health) to
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imploy my firſt leiſure in the publication of
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ſome other Phyſiological Papers, which I
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thought 'twould make me much the ſitter to
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take in hand, if I firſt diſpatch'd all that
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I had at this time to write touching our
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I have this further to adde, by way
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of Excuſe, That as it has been my deſign
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in publiſhing theſe Experiments to gratifie
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