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

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              deed intelligent and conſiderate, are wont to
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              imploy more wary and diffident Expreſsi­
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              ons, or (as he ſpeaks)
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              There are divers Reflections, and other
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              Paſſages in the following Epiſtle, and even
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              ſome Experiments (occaſionally mention'd)
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              which may ſeem either impertinent or ſu­
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              perfluous, but are not ſo: Being purpoſely
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              written, either to evince ſome truth oppoſ'd,
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              or diſprove ſome erroneous conceit main­
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              tain'd, by ſome eminent New Philoſopher,
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              or by ſome other Ingenious Men, who, I
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              preſum'd, would eaſily forgive me the ha­
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              ving on ſuch occaſions purpoſely omitted
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              their Names; though an inquiſitive Perſon
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              will probably diſcover divers of them, by
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              the mention of the Opinions diſprov'd in
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              the Experiments I am excuſing.
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              Ever ſince I diſcern'd the uſefulneſs
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              of ſpeculative Geometry to Natural Phi­
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              loſophy, the unhappy Diſtempers of my Eyes,
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              have ſo far kept me from being much con­
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              verſant in it, that I fear I ſhall need the par­
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              doz of my Mathematical Readers, for ſome
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              Paſſages, which if I had been deeply skill'd
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              in Geometry, I ſhould have treated more ac­
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              curately.
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