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

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              no reaſon why the minute parts of Wa­
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              ter, and other Bodies, may not be ſo agi­
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              tated or connected as to deſerve the name
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              of Air. </s>
              <s>For if we allow the
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              Carteſian
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              Hypotheſis,
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              according to which, as we no­
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              ted at the beginning of this Letter, the
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              Air may conſiſt of any terrene or aqueous
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              Corpuſcles, provided they be kept ſwim­
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              ming in the interfluent Celeſtial Matter;
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              it is obvious that Air may be as often ge­
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              nerated, as Terreſtrial Particles minute
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              enough to be carried up and down, by the
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              Celeſtial Matter aſcend into the Atmo­
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              ſphere. </s>
              <s>And if we will have the Air to
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              be a
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              congeries
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              of little ſlender Springs, it
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              ſeems not impoſſible, though it be diffi­
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              cult, that the ſmall parts of divers Bo­
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              dies may by a lucky concourſe of cauſes
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              be ſo connected as to conſtitute ſuch
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              little Springs, ſince (as we note in another
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              Treatiſe) Water in the Plants it nouriſhes
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              is uſually contriv'd into Springy Bodies,
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              and even the bare alter'd poſition and con­
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              nexion of the parts of a Body may ſuf­
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              fice to give it a Spring that it had not be­
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              fore, as may be ſeen in a thin and fiexible
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              Plate of Silver; unto which, by ſome
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              ſtroaks of a Hammer, you may give a
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              Spring, and by onely heating it red hot </s>
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