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

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              ſpicuous interval betwixt ſuch Diſcourſes,
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              and the Experiments whereunto they belong,
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              or are annexed; that they who deſire onely
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              the Hiſtorical part of the account we give
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              of our Engine, may read the Narra­
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              tives, without being put to the trouble
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              of reading the Reflections too: Which I
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              here take notice of, for the ſake of thoſe
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              that are well verſ'd in the New Philoſophy,
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              and in the Mathematicks; that ſuch
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              may skip what was deſign'd, but for ſuch
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              Perſons as may be leſs acquainted even then
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              I, with matters of this nature (ſcarce ſo
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              much as mention'd by any Writer in our
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              Language) and not for them from whom
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              I ſhall be much more forward to learn, then
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              to pretend to teach them. </s>
              <s>Of my being
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              wont to ſpeak rather doubtfully, or heſitant­
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              ly, then reſolvedly, concerning matters
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              wherein I apprehend ſome difficulty, I have
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              in another Treatiſe (which may, through
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              Gods Aſsiſtance, come abroad ere long)
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              given a particular, and I hope a ſatisfacto­
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              ry account: Wherefore I ſhall now defend
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              my Practice but by the Obſervation of
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              Ari­
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              ſtotle,
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              who ſomewhere notes, That to ſeem
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              to know all things certainly, and to ſpeak
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              poſitively of them, is a trick of bold and
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              yong Fellows: Whereas thoſe that are in-
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