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

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              agitation, or as to both, betwixt ſome
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              parts of the Etherial Subſtance, and thoſe
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              that are wont here below to produce Heat
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              <s>We try'd alſo what Operation the
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              drawing out of the Air would have upon
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              Camphire, that being a Body, which,
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              though not a Liquor, conſiſts of ſuch
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              Volatile or Fugitive parts, that without
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              any greater agitation then that of the open
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              Air it ſelf, they will copiouſly flie away.
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              <s>But we found not that even this looſe
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              Body was ſenſibly alter'd by the Exſucti­
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              on of the ambient Air. </s>
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              <s>IT may ſeem well worth trying, whether
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              or no in our exhauſted Glaſs the want
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              of an ambient Body, of the wonted thic­
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              neſs of Air, would diſable even light and
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              little Animals, as Bees, and other winged
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              Inſects, to flie. </s>
              <s>But though we eaſily
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              foreſaw how difficult it would be to make
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              ſuch an Experiment; yet not to omit our
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              endeavors, we procur'd a large Fleſh-fly,
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              which we convey'd into a ſmall Receiver.
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              <s>We alſo another time ſhut into a great
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              Receiver a Humming Bee, that appear'd
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