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

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              dily dilated it ſelf downward, from the
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              Receiver into the Pump, when 'tis plain,
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              that it is not the incumbent Atmoſphere,
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              but onely the ſubjacent Air in the braſs
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              Cylinder that has been remov'd: If this,
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              I ſay, be objected, we may reply, That
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              when a man ſqueezes a Fleece of Wool in
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              his hand, he may feel that the Wool in­
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              ceſſantly bears againſt his hand, as that
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              which hinders the hairs it conſiſts of, to
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              recover their former and more natural ex­
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              tent. </s>
              <s>So each parcel of the Air about the
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              Earth, does conſtantly endeavour to thruſt
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              away all thoſe contiguous Bodies, whe­
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              ther Aërial or more groſs, that keep
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              them bent, and hinder the expanſion of
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              its parts, which will dilate themſelves or
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              flie abroad towards that part, whether up­
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              wards or downwards, where they finde
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              their attempted Dilatation of themſelves
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              leſs reſiſted by the neihgboring Bodies.
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              <s>Thus the Corpuſcles of that Air we have
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              been all this while ſpeaking of, being un­
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              able, by reaſon of their weight, to aſcend
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              above the Convexity of the Atmoſphere,
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              and by reaſon of the reſiſtance of the ſur­
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              face of the Earth and Water, to fall down
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              lower, they are forced, by their own gra­
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              vity and this reſiſtance, to expand and </s>
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