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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ly pent up in the Glaſs; yet I, that love
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periment I can try whether it be True or
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no, thought it the ſafeſt way to obviate
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Objections, and remove Scruples, by ſhut
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ting up another Mouſe as cloſe as I could
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in the Receiver, wherein it liv'd above
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three quarters of an hour; and might pro
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of quality, who in the mean
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while chanc'd to make me a Viſit, deſir'd
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kill'd by the exſuction of the ambient Air,
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whereupon we thought fit to open, for a
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little while, an intercourſe betwixt the
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Air in the Receiver, and that without it,
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that the Mouſe might thereby (if it were
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needful for him) be refreſh d, and yet we
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