Boyle, Robert, New experiments physico-mechanicall, touching the spring of the air and its effects, 1660
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              be quickly diſpatcht, and therefore may
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              be try'd in our Engine, though it leak a
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              little; becauſe the Air may be faſter drawn
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              out, by nimbly plying the Pump, then
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              it can get in at undiſcern'd leaks; I ſay at
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              undiſcern'd leaks, becauſe ſuch as are big
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              enough to be diſcover'd can ſcarce be un­
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              eaſie to be ſtopt. </s>
              <s>The other ſort of Ex­
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              periments conſiſts of thoſe that require
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              not onely that the internal Air be drawn
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              out of the Receiver, but that it be like­
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              wiſe for a long time kept out of it. </s>
              <s>Such
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              are the preſervation of Animal and o­
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              ther Bodies therein, the germination and
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              growth of Vegetables, and other tryals
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              of ſeveral ſorts, which it is apparent can­
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              not be well made unleſs the external Air
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              can, for a competent while, be excluded:
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              Since even at a very ſmall leak there may
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              enough get in, to make the
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              Vacuum
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              ſoon
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              looſe that name; by which I here declare
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              once for all, that I underſtand not a ſpace
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              wherein there is no body at all, but ſuch
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              as is either altogether, or almoſt totally
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              void of Air. </s>
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              <s>Now this diſtinction of Experiments
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              I thought fit to premiſe to the enſuing
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              Narratives, becauſe upon tryal, we found
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              it ſo exceeding (and ſcarce imaginable) dif-</s>
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