Boyle, Robert, New experiments physico-mechanicall, touching the spring of the air and its effects, 1660
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              Pecquet
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              ) hath been newly mix'd with it in
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              the Heart.) And this Opinion is that of
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              the Induſtrious
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              Mœbius,
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              and is ſaid to
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              have been that of that excellent Philoſo­
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              pher
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              Gaſſendus;
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              and hath been in part an
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              Opinion almoſt vulgar: But this
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              Hypo­
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              theſis
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              may be explicated two ways: For
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              firſt, The neceſſity of the Air in Reſpi­
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              ration, may be ſuppoſ'd to proceed from
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              hence; That as a Flame cannot long burn
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              in a narrow and cloſe place, becauſe the
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              Fuliginous Steams it unceſſantly throws
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              out, cannot be long receiv'd into the am­
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              bient Body; which after a while growing
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              too full of them, to admit any more, ſti­
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              fles the flame, ſo that the vital Fire in the
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              Heart requires an ambient Body, of a
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              yielding nature, to receive into it the ſu­
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              perfluous Seroſities and other Recrements
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              of the Blood, whoſe ſeaſonable Expulſi­
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              on is requiſite to depurate the Maſs of
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              Blood, and make it fit both to Circulate;
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              and to maintain the vital heat reſiding in
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              the Heart. </s>
              <s>The other way of explicating
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              the above-mention'd
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              Hypotheſis,
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              is, by
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              ſuppoſing, that the Air does not onely, as
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              a Receptacle, admit into its Pores the Ex­
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              crementitious vapors of the Blood, when
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              they are expell'd through the Wind-Pipe, </s>
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