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

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              may be thruſt into an 8
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              th
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              , or a yet ſmaller
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              part of its ordinary extent) it ſeems ne­
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              ceſſary to admit either a notion of conden­
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              ſation & rarefaction that is not intelligi­
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              ble, or that in the capacity of our Recei­
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              ver when preſum'd to be full of Air, there
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              yet remain'd as much of ſpace as was ta­
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              ken up by all the aërial corpuſcles unpoſ­
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              ſeſſed by the Air. </s>
              <s>Which ſeemes plainly,
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              to infer that the Air that ruſh'd into our
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              empty'd veſſel did not doe it preciſely
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              to fill up the Vacuities of it, ſince it left ſo
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              many unfill'd, but rather was thruſt in by
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              the preſſure of the contiguous Air; which
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              as it could not, but be always ready to ex­
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              pand it ſelfe, where it found leaſt reſi­
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              ſtance, ſo was it unable to fill the Recei­
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              ver any more, then until the Air within
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              was reduc'd to the ſame meaſure of Com­
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              pactneſs with that without. </s>
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              <s>We may alſo from our two already of­
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              ten mention'd Experiments further de­
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              duce, that, (ſince Natures hatred of a
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              Vacuum
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              is but Metaphorical and Ac­
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              cidental, being but a conſequence or re­
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              ſult of the preſſure of the Air and of the
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              Gravity, and partly alſo of the Fluxility
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              of ſome other bodies) The power ſhee
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              makes uſe of to hinder a Vacuum, is not </s>
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