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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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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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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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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