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

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              reaſon, I ſay, being thus deſum'd, ſeems
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              to make the Controverſie about a
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              Vacu­
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              um,
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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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              this Carteſian Notion of a Body, or to
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              manifeſt wherein it is erroneous, and ſub­
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              ſtitute a better in its ſtead. </s>
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              <s>But though we are unwilling to exa­
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              mine any further the Inferences wont to
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              be made from the
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              Torricellian
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              Experi­
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              ment, yet we think it not impertinent to
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              preſent Your Lordſhip with a couple of
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              Advertiſements concerning it. </s>
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              <s>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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              ken. </s>
              <s>For whereas men are wont gene­
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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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              riment, that the Quick-ſilver in the Tube </s>
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