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

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              <s>And as for the Allegations above
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              mention'd, they ſeem to prove but that
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              the Receiver devoy'd of Air,
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              May
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              be re­
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              pleniſh'd with ſome ſuch Etherial Matter,
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              as ſome Modern Naturaliſts write of; but
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              not that it really
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              is
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              ſo. </s>
              <s>And indeed to me
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              it yet ſeems, that as to thoſe ſpaces which
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              the
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              Vacuiſts
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              would have to be empty, be­
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              cauſe they are manifeſtly devoid of Air;
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              and all groſſer Bodies, the
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              Pleniſts
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              (if I
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              may ſo call them) do not prove that ſuch
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              ſpaces are repleniſh'd with ſuch a ſubtle
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              Matter as they ſpeak of, by any ſenſible
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              effects, or operations of it (of which di­
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              vers new Tryals purpoſely made, have not
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              yet ſhown me any) but onely conclude
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              that there muſt be ſuch a Body, becauſe
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              there cannot be a Void. </s>
              <s>And the reaſon
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              why there cannot be a Void, being by
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              them taken, not from any Experiments,
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              or
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              Phænomena
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              of Nature, that clearly and
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              particularly prove their
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              Hypotheſis,
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              but
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              from their notion of a Body, whoſe Na­
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              ture, according to them, conſiſting one­
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              ly in extenſion (which indeed ſeems the
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              property moſt eſſential to, becauſe inſepa­
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              rable from a Body) to ſay a ſpace devoid
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              of Body, is to ſpeak in the School-mens
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              Phraſe, a Contradiction
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              in Adjecto:
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