Boyle, Robert, New experiments physico-mechanicall, touching the spring of the air and its effects, 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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              gain to the height it reſted at before. </s>
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              <s>Your Lordſhip will here perhaps expect,
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              that as thoſe who have treated of the
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              Tor­
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              ricellian
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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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              Va­
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              cuum?
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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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              all Corporeal Subſtance. </s>
              <s>But beſides that,
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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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              a Controverſie. </s>
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