Boyle, Robert, New experiments physico-mechanicall, touching the spring of the air and its effects, 1660

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              Experiment, namely, That from the ſole
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              ſwelling of Water there recorded, it can­
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              not be ſo ſafely concluded that Water,
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              when freed from compreſſion, is endowd
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              with an Elaſtical power of expanding it
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              ſelf, ſince thereby it appears that the In­
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              tumeſcence produc'd by that Experiment,
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              may (at leaſt in great part) be aſcrib'd to
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              the numerous little bubbles which are
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              wont to be produc'd in Water, from
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              which the preſſure of the Atmoſphere is
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              in great meaſure taken off. </s>
              <s>So apt are we
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              to be miſ-led, even by Experiments them­
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              ſelves, into Miſtakes, when either we con­
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              ſider not that moſt Effects may proceed
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              from various Cauſes, or minde onely thoſe
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              Circumſtances of our Experiment, which
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              ſeem to comply with our preconceiv'd
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              Hypotheſis
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              or Conjectures. </s>
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              <s>And hence it ſeems alſo probable, that
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              in the Pores or inviſible little receſſes of
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              Water it ſelf there lie commonly inter­
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              ſperſ'd many parcels of either Air, or at
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              leaſt ſomething Analogous thereunto, al­
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              though ſo very ſmall that they have not
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              been hitherto ſo much as ſuſpected to
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              lurk there. </s>
              <s>But if it be demanded how it
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              appears that there is interſperſ'd through
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              the Body of Water any ſubſtance thinner </s>
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