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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have occaſion to make uſe of them in my o
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ther Writings: That in divers caſes I
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thought it neceſſary to deliver things cir
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cumſtantially, that the Perſon I addreſſed
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them to, might without miſtake, and with
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as little trouble as is poſsible, be able to re
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peat ſuch unuſual Experiments: and that
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after I conſented to let my Obſervations be
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made publick, the moſt ordinary Reaſon of
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my prolixity was, That foreſeeing that ſuch
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a trouble as I met with in making thoſe try
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als carefully, and the great expence of time
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that they neceſſarily require, (not to mention
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the charges of making the Engine, and im
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ploying a man to manage it) will probably
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keep moſt men from trying again theſe Ex
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periments; I thought I might doe the gene
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rality of my Readers no unacceptable pe
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of ſervice, by ſo punctually relating what
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I carefully obſerv'd, that they may look up
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on theſe Narratives as ſtanding Records in
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our new Pneumaticks, and need not reite
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rate themſelves an Experiment to have as
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diſtinct an Idea of it, as may ſuffice them
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to ground their Reflections and Speculations
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And becauſe ſometimes 'tis the Diſcourſe
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made upon the Experiment that makes it
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appear prolix, I have commonly left a con-
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