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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ſpicuous interval betwixt ſuch Diſcourſes,
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and the Experiments whereunto they belong,
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or are annexed; that they who deſire onely
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the Hiſtorical part of the account we give
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of our Engine, may read the Narra
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of reading the Reflections too: Which I
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here take notice of, for the ſake of thoſe
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that are well verſ'd in the New Philoſophy,
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and in the Mathematicks; that ſuch
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may skip what was deſign'd, but for ſuch
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Perſons as may be leſs acquainted even then
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I, with matters of this nature (ſcarce ſo
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much as mention'd by any Writer in our
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Language) and not for them from whom
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wont to ſpeak rather doubtfully, or heſitant
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ly, then reſolvedly, concerning matters
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wherein I apprehend ſome difficulty, I have
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in another Treatiſe (which may, through
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Gods Aſsiſtance, come abroad ere long)
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given a particular, and I hope a ſatisfacto
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ry account: Wherefore I ſhall now defend
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my Practice but by the Obſervation of
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