Tracts containing I. suspicions about some hidden qualities of the air : with an appendix touching celestial magnets and some other particulars : II. animadversions upon Mr. Hobbes's Problemata de vacuo : III. a discourse of the cause of attraction by suction / by the honourable Robert Boyle Esq. ...

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Tracts containing I. suspicions about some hidden qualities of the air : with an appendix touching celestial magnets and some other particulars : II. animadversions upon Mr. Hobbes's Problemata de vacuo : III. a discourse of the cause of attraction by suction / by the honourable Robert Boyle Esq. ...
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Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.
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London :: Printed by W. G. and are sold by M. Pitt ...,
1674.
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Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679. -- Problemata physica.
Air -- Early works to 1800.
Pneumatics -- Early works to 1800.
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"Tracts containing I. suspicions about some hidden qualities of the air : with an appendix touching celestial magnets and some other particulars : II. animadversions upon Mr. Hobbes's Problemata de vacuo : III. a discourse of the cause of attraction by suction / by the honourable Robert Boyle Esq. ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A29052.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 1, 2024.

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EXPER. XII.

There was taken Beer of eight shil∣lings a Barrel, of a year old, near a Pint of which, Iune the seventeenth,

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was put into a conveniently shap'd Glass, and it was afterwards exhau∣sted and secur'd from the Air; the most part of the month of August prov'd extraordinarily hot. Towards the latter end there was at several times great Thunder, which made the Beer in our Cellar, and in most of those of the Neighbourhood, turn soure. The first of September, the Beer was open'd, but did not seem to have degenerated into any soureness.

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