SECT. III.
ARTIC.
- 1 THe second Difficulty stated.
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- 2 Two things necessary to the creation of an excessive, or praeternatural Vacuity.
- ibid.
- 3 The occasion of Galilaeos invention of a Brass Cylindre charged with a wooden Embol, or Sucker: and of Torricellius invention of the praesent Experiment.
- ibid.
- 4 The marrow of the Difficulty, viz. How the Aer can be impelled upward, by the Restagnant Quick silver, when there externally wants a fit space for it to ci••culate into.
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- 5 The solution of the same, by the Laxity of the Contexture of the Aer.
- ibid.
- 6 The same illustrated, by the adaequate simile of Corn infused into a Bushel.
- ibid.
- 7 A subordinate scruple, why most bodies are mo∣ved through the Aer▪ with so little resistence, as is imperceptible by sense?
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- 8 The same Expeded.
- ibid.
- 9 A second dependent scruple concerning the Cause of the sensible resistence of the Aer, in this case of the Experiment: together with the satisfaction thereof, by the Gravity of Aer.
- ibid.