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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they did not beſtirre themſelves to pre
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vent it, nor to be ſo generous as to act
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then of intelligible and probable Truth,
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as is contain'd in this Metaphoricall Ex
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preſſion, ſeems to amount but to this;
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That by the Wiſe Author of Nature
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things in number, weight, and meaſure,)
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the Univerſe, and the parts of it, are ſo
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in it, as if they ſtudiouſly conſpir'd
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ſeem to teach, that the ſuppoſed Averſa
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dental, or in conſequence partly of the
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Weight and Fluidity, or, at leaſt, Fluxi
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lity of the Bodies here below; and partly,
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and perhaps principally, of the Spring of
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the air, whoſe reſtleſs endeavor to expand
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it ſelfe every way, makes it either ruth
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in it ſelfe, or compel the interpos'd bo
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dys into all ſpaces, where it finds no grea
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