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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diffuſe themſelves about the Terreſtial
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Globe; whereby it comes to paſs, that
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they muſt as well preſs the contiguous
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Corpuſcles of Air that on either ſide op
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poſe their Dilatation, as they muſt preſs
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upon the ſurface of the Earth, and, as it
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were recoyling thence, endeavor to thruſt
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away thoſe upper particles of Air that
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>And as for the eaſie yielding of the Air
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to the Bodies that move in it, if we con
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ſider that the Corpuſcles whereof it con
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ſiſts, though of a ſpringy nature, are yet
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ſo very ſmall, as to make up (which 'tis
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manifeſt they doe) a fluid Body, it will
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not be difficult to conceive, that in the
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Air, as in other Bodies that are fluid, the
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little Bodies it conſiſts of are in an almoſt
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reſtleſs motion, whereby they become
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(as we have more fully diſcourſed in ano
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ther Treatiſe) very much diſpoſed to
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yield to other Bodies, or eaſie to be diſ
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plac'd by them, and that the ſame Cor
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puſcles are likewiſe ſo variouſly mov'd, as
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they are intire Corpuſcles, that if ſome
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ſtrive to puſh a Body plac'd among them
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towards the right hand (for inſtance)
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others, whoſe motion has an oppoſite de
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