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

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              that in thoſe motions which are made
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              ob­
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              fugamVacui
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              (as the common phraſe is) Bo­
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              dys act without ſuch generoſity & Con­
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              ſideration, as is wont to be aſcrib'd to
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              them, is apparent enough in our 32
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              d
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              Ex­
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              periment, where the torrent of Air, that
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              ſeem'd to ſtrive to get into the Empty'd
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              Receiver, did plainly prevent its own
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              Deſigne, by ſo impelling the Value, as
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              to make it ſhut the only Orifice the Air
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              was to get in at. </s>
              <s>And if afterwards ei­
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              ther Nature, or the internal Air, had a de­
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              ſigne the external Air ſhould be attra­
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              cted, they ſeem'd to proſecute very un­
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              wiſely by continuing to ſuck the Valve
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              ſo ſtrongly, when they found that by
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              that Sucction the Valve it ſelfe could not
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              be drawn in: Whereas by forbearing to
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              ſuck, the Valve would by it's own weight
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              have fall'n down, and ſuffer'd the exclu­
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              ded Air to returne freely, and to fill
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              again the exhauſted Veſſel. </s>
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              <s>And this minds me to take notice of
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              another deficiency, pointed at by our Ex­
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              periments in the common Doctrine of
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              thoſe Pleniſts we reaſon with; for many
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              of thoſe unuſual motions in Bodies, that
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              are ſayd to be made to eſcape a
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              Vacuum,
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              ſeem rather made to fill it. </s>
              <s>For why, </s>
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