1That as for the ſubtle Matter which makes
the Objects encloſed in our evacuated Re
ceiver, viſible, and the Magnetical Efflu
via of the Earth that may be preſum'd to
paſs thorow it, though we ſhould grant
our Veſſel not to be quite devoyd of
them, yet we cannot ſo reaſonably affirm
it to be repleniſh'd with them, as we may
ſuppoſe, that if they were gather'd toge
ther into one place without Intervals be
tween them, they would fill but a ſmall
part of the whole Receiver. As in the
thirteenth Experiment, a piece of Match
was inconſiderable for its bulk, whileſt its
parts lay cloſe together, that afterwards
(when the Fire had ſcatter'd them into
ſmoke) ſeem'd to repleniſh all the Veſſel.
For (as elſewhere our Experiments have
demonſtrated) both Light and the Efflu
via of the Load-ſtone, may be readily ad
mitted into a Glaſs, Hermetically ſeal'd,
though before their Admiſſion, as full of
Air as hollow Bodies here below are wont
to be, ſo that upon the exſuction of the
Air, the large ſpace deſerted by it, may
remain empty, notwithſtanding the pre
tence of thoſe ſubtle Corpuſcles, by
which Lucid and Magnetical Bodies pro
duce their effects.
the Objects encloſed in our evacuated Re
ceiver, viſible, and the Magnetical Efflu
via of the Earth that may be preſum'd to
paſs thorow it, though we ſhould grant
our Veſſel not to be quite devoyd of
them, yet we cannot ſo reaſonably affirm
it to be repleniſh'd with them, as we may
ſuppoſe, that if they were gather'd toge
ther into one place without Intervals be
tween them, they would fill but a ſmall
part of the whole Receiver. As in the
thirteenth Experiment, a piece of Match
was inconſiderable for its bulk, whileſt its
parts lay cloſe together, that afterwards
(when the Fire had ſcatter'd them into
ſmoke) ſeem'd to repleniſh all the Veſſel.
For (as elſewhere our Experiments have
demonſtrated) both Light and the Efflu
via of the Load-ſtone, may be readily ad
mitted into a Glaſs, Hermetically ſeal'd,
though before their Admiſſion, as full of
Air as hollow Bodies here below are wont
to be, ſo that upon the exſuction of the
Air, the large ſpace deſerted by it, may
remain empty, notwithſtanding the pre
tence of thoſe ſubtle Corpuſcles, by
which Lucid and Magnetical Bodies pro
duce their effects.
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