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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nature of the Air) We think it not unfit
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particulars which at preſent occur to our
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Air (as well as other Elements) to be in
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generable and incorruptible. </
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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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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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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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Clavius
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the famous Geometrician,
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The included water is to this day pre
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