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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luck not to be deſpiſ'd) I could not without
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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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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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