Boyle, Robert, New experiments physico-mechanicall, touching the spring of the air and its effects, 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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              that in general air may be generated anew. </s>
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              <s>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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              Ariſtotle,
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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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              another. </s>
              <s>But we ſhall rather to the fore­
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              going Argument adde this, drawn from
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              Reaſon, That if, as
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              Leucippus, Democri­
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              tus, Epieurus
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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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              ducible from thence) there appeares </s>
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