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Title:  A free enquiry into the vulgarly receiv'd notion of nature made in an essay address'd to a friend / by R.B., Fellow of the Royal Society.
Author: Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.
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lodg'd in it; so little Appetite has Air, in general, to flee all Associa∣tion with Water, and make its escape out of that Liquor; though, when sensible Portions of it happen to be under Water, the great ine∣quality in Gravity, between those two Fluids, makes the Water press up the Air. But, though 'twere easie to give a Mechanical Account of the Phaenomena of mingled Air and Wa∣ter, yet, because it cannot be done in few Words, I shall not here un∣dertake it; the Phaenomena them∣selves being sufficient, to render the Supposition of my Adversaries im∣probable.Another Argument, in favour of the Received Opinion of Nature, may be drawn from the strong Ap∣petite, that Bodies have to recover their Natural state, when by any means they are put out of it, and thereby forced into a State that is called Preternatural; as we see, that Air being violently compress'd in a blown Bladder, as soon as the force 0