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

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              nature of the Air) We think it not unfit
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              to make a brief mention of ſome of the
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              particulars which at preſent occur to our
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              thoughts in favor of either part of the
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              Queſtion. </s>
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              <s>Firſt then, divers Naturaliſts eſteem the
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              Air (as well as other Elements) to be in­
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              generable and incorruptible. </s>
              <s>And reaſons
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              plauſible enough may be drawn to coun­
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              tenance this Opinion from the conſidera­
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              tion of that permanency that ought to
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              belong to the corporeal Principles of o­
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              ther Bodies. </s>
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              <s>Next, Experience may be pleaded to
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              the ſame purpoſe, for I have read of ſome
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              who have in vain attempted to turn Air
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              into Water, or VVater into Air. </s>
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              <s>The diligent
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              Schottus
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              tells us, That a­
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              mongſt the other rarities to be met with
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              in that great Repoſitory of them, the
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              Muſæum Kercherianum,
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              there is a round
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              Glaſs with a tapering Neck near half full
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              (as one may gueſs by the Scheme he an­
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              nexes) of ordinary Spring-water, which
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              having been Hermetically ſhut up there
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              by
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              Clavius
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              the famous Geometrician,
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              The included water is to this day pre­
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              ſerv'd, not onely clear and pure, as if
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              it were but newly put in: But (as it ſeems) </s>
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