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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reaſon, I ſay, being thus deſum'd, ſeems
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rather a Metaphyſical, then a Phyſio
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logical Queſtion; which therefore we ſhall
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here no longer debate, finding it very dif
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ficult either to ſatisfie Naturaliſts with
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>Firſt, then if in trying the Experiment
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here or elſewhere, you make uſe of the
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Engliſh meaſures that Mathematicians
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and Tradeſmen are here wont to imploy,
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You will, unleſs you be forewarn'd of it,
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be apt to ſuſpect that thoſe that have writ
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ten of the Experiment have been miſta
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rally to talk of the Quick-ſilver's remain
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ing ſuſpended at the heighth of between
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ſix or ſeven and twenty Inches; we com
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monly obſerv'd, when divers years ſince
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we firſt were ſollicitous about this Expe
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