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

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