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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we obſerv'd, that the newly generated
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ſteams did not onely poſſeſs almoſt all the
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whole cavity of the Glaſs, but divers
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times without the aſſiſtance of the heat of
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my hand, broke away in large bubbles
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through the ambient Liquor into the o
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pen Air: So that theſe Experiments
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with corroſive Liquors, ſeem'd manifeſt
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ly enough to prove, though not that Air
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may be generated out of the Water, yet
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>Laſtly, to the foregoing Arguments
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from Experience we might eaſily ſubjoyn
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the Authority of
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and of (his
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followers) the Schools who are known to
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have taught, that Air and Water being
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Symbolizing Elements (in the quality of
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moiſture) are eaſily tranſmutable into one
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going Argument adde this, drawn from
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Reaſon, That if, as
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and others, follow'd by
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divers modern Naturaliſts, have taught,
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the difference of Bodies proceeds but
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from the various Magnitudes, Figures,
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Motions, and Textures of the ſmall
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parts they conſiſt of, (all the quali
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ties that make them differ, being de
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