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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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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ken up by all the aërial corpuſcles unpoſ
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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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was reduc'd to the ſame meaſure of Com
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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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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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