The philosophical works of the Honourable Robert Boyle esq.: abridged, methodized, and disposed under the general heads of physics, statics, pneumatics, natural history, chymistry, and medicine (1725)
Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691, Shaw, Peter, 1694-1763. ed · London, W. and J. Innys [etc.] · leaf 435
d greatly affifted Mr. Boyle to introduce, or revivethe mechanical philofophy 5 this, evidently, helped to overthrow the doEirine ofnatures dread of a Vacuum, by which, the modifh philofophy of his time,falfely accounted for abundance of phenomena ; to this is owing, the greatefipart of thofe noble… … Phyfico- (407 ) ••■^•■■HMMaai Phyfico-mechanical EXPERIMENTS, To fhew the Spring andEffeds of the AIR. SECT. I. TH E air is fo neceffary to life, that moft creatures, which breathe, t^« t^» fcannot fubfift, for many minutes, without it; and moft of the *** ^^^natural bodies we deal with, being, as…
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