Boyle, Robert, New experiments physico-mechanicall, touching the spring of the air and its effects, 1660

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              <s>For on the one ſide it appears, that not­
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              withſtanding the exſuction of the Air, our
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              Receiver may not be deſtitute of all Bo­
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              dies, ſince any thing placed in it, may be
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              ſeen there; which would not be, if it
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              were not pervious to thoſe Beams of
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              Light which rebounding from the ſeen
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              Object to our eyes, affect us with the ſenſe
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              of it: And that either theſe Beams are
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              Corporeal Emanations from ſome lucid
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              body, or elſe at leaſt the light they convey
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              doth reſult from the brisk Motion of ſome
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              ſubtle Matter, I could, if I miſtake not,
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              ſufficiently manifeſt out of the Dialogues
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              above-mention'd, if I thought your Lord­
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              ſhip could ſeriouſly imagine that Light
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              could be convey'd without, at leaſt, having
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              (if I may ſo ſpeak) a Body for its Ve­
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              hicle. </s>
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              <s>By the ſixteenth Experiment, it alſo
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              appears that the cloſeneſs of our Receiver
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              hinders it not from admitting the Efflu­
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              via of the Load-ſtone; which makes it
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              very probable that it alſo freely admits
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              the Magnetical ſteams of the Earth; con­
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              cerning which, we have in another Trea­
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              tiſe endeavour'd to manifeſt that numbers
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              of them do always permeate our Air. </s>
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              <s>But on the other ſide it may be ſaid, </s>
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