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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periment of the ſmoking Liquor, and
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elſewhere ſayd, gather'd to the ſame pur
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pearing abſur'd: If ſince we ſee that there
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Spirit of Wine yet much lighter than wa
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ter; we venter to ſpeak ſometimes of the
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Atmoſphere, as if it were a peculiar kind
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of thin and halituous Liquor (if I may ſo
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ly took notice of conſpicuous waves that
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of our agi
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of the Atmoſphere,
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by thoſe ſtrange ruggedneſſes that ap
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peare (eſpecially in the Spring and Fall,
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when exhalations and vapours are wont to
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