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

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              periments, and particularly by this Cir­
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              cumſtance of the three and Thirtieth,
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              that the Sucker was by the preſſure of the
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              Ambient Air impell'd upwards, with its
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              weight hanging at it, not only when it
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              was at the bottome of the Cylinder, and
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              conſequently left a great
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              Vacuum
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              in the
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              cavity of it; but when the Sucker had
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              been already impel'd almoſt to the top of
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              the Cylinder, and conſequently, when the
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              Vacuum
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              that remain'd was become very
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              litle in compariſon of that which preceded
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              the beginning of the Sucker's aſcention. </s>
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              <s>In the next place, theſe Experiments
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              may teach us, what to judge of the vul­
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              gar Axiom receiv'd for ſo many Ages
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              as an undoubted Truth in the Peripate­
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              tick Schools; That Nature abhorres
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              and flys a
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              Vacuum,
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              and that to ſuch a de­
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              gree, that no humane power (to go no
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              higher) is able to make one in the Uni­
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              verſe; wherein Heaven and Earth would
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              change places, and all its other Bodyes
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              rather act contrary to their own Nature,
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              than ſuffer it. </s>
              <s>For, if by a
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              Vacuum
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              we
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              will underſtand a place perfectly devoid
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              of all corporeal Subſtance, it may be in­
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              deed then, as we formerly noted be plau­
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              ſibly enough maintain'd, that there is </s>
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