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

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              ſome noiſe among the
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              Virtuoſi (
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              inſomuch
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              that ſome of them have been ſent into Fo­
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              reign Countries, where they have had the
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              luck not to be deſpiſ'd) I could not without
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              quite tyring more then one
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              Amanuenſis,
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              give
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              out half as many Copies of them as were ſo
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              earneſtly deſired, that I could not civilly
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              refuſe them. </s>
              <s>The other, That intelligent
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              Perſons in matters of this kinde perſwaded
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              me, that the publication of what I had ob­
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              ſerv'd touching the Nature of the Air,
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              would not be uſeleſs to the World; and that
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              in an Age ſo taken with Novelties as is ours,
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              theſe new Experiments would be grateful to
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              the Lovers of free and real Learning: So
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              that I might at once comply with my grand
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              Deſign of promoting Experimental and
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              Uſeful Philoſophy, and obtain the great ſa­
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              tisfaction of giving ſome to ingenious Men;
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              the hope of which, is, I confeſs, a tempta­
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              tion that I cannot caſily reſiſt.
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              Of my being ſomewhat prolix in many
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              of my Experiments, I have theſe Reaſons
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              to render, That ſome of them being altoge­
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              ther new, ſeem'd to need the being circum­
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              ſtantially related, to keep the Reader from
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              diſtruſting them: That divers Circum­
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              ſtances I did here and there ſet down for fear
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              of forgetting them, when I may hereafter
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