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| <s>For fir&longs;t, the <emph type="italics"/>Wind-Pump<emph.end type="italics"/> (as <lb/>&longs;ome body not improperly calls it) is &longs;o <lb/>contriv'd, that to evacuate the Ve&longs;&longs;el <lb/>there is requir'd the continual labor of <lb/>two &longs;trong men for divers hours. </s> | <s>For fir&longs;t, the <emph type="italics"/>Wind-Pump<emph.end type="italics"/> (as <lb/>&longs;ome body not improperly calls it) is &longs;o <lb/>contriv'd, that to evacuate the Ve&longs;&longs;el <lb/>there is requir'd the continual labor of <lb/>two &longs;trong men for divers hours. </s> |
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| <s>And <lb/>next (which is an imperfection of much <lb/>greater moment) the Receiver, or Gla&longs;s <lb/>to be empty'd, con&longs;i&longs;ting of one entire <lb/>and uninterrupted Globe and Neck of <lb/>Gla&longs;s; the whole Engine is &longs;o made, that <lb/>things cannot be convey'd into it, where­<lb/>on to try Experiments: So that there <lb/>&longs;eems but little (if any thing) more to be <lb/>expected from it, then tho&longs;e very few <lb/><emph type="italics"/>Phænomena<emph.end type="italics"/> that have been already ob­<lb/>&longs;erv'd by the Author, and Recorded by <lb/><emph type="italics"/>Schottus.<emph.end type="italics"/> Wherefore to remedy the&longs;e <lb/>Inconveniences, I put both Mr. <emph type="italics"/>G.<emph.end type="italics"/><pb pagenum="7"/>and <emph type="italics"/>R. Hook<emph.end type="italics"/> (who hath al&longs;o the Honor to <lb/>be known to your Lord&longs;hip, and was with <lb/>me when I had the&longs;e things under con&longs;i­<lb/>deration) to contrive &longs;ome Air Pump, <lb/>that might not, like the other, need to <lb/>be kept under water (which on divers oc­<lb/>ca&longs;ions is inconvenient) & might be more <lb/>ea&longs;ily manag'd: And after an un&longs;ucce&longs;sful <lb/>try all or two of ways propo&longs;'d by o­<lb/>thers, the la&longs;t nam'd Per&longs;on fitted me <lb/>with a Pump, anon to be de&longs;crib'd. </s> | <s>And <lb/>next (which is an imperfection of much <lb/>greater moment) the Receiver, or Gla&longs;s <lb/>to be empty'd, con&longs;i&longs;ting of one entire <lb/>and uninterrupted Globe and Neck of <lb/>Gla&longs;s; the whole Engine is &longs;o made, that <lb/>things cannot be convey'd into it, where­<lb/>on to try Experiments: So that there <lb/>&longs;eems but little (if any thing) more to be <lb/>expected from it, then tho&longs;e very few <lb/><emph type="italics"/>Phænomena<emph.end type="italics"/> that have been already ob­<lb/>&longs;erv'd by the Author, and Recorded by <lb/><emph type="italics"/>Schottus.<emph.end type="italics"/></s><s> Wherefore to remedy the&longs;e <lb/>Inconveniences, I put both Mr. <emph type="italics"/>G.<emph.end type="italics"/><pb pagenum="7"/>and <emph type="italics"/>R. Hook<emph.end type="italics"/> (who hath al&longs;o the Honor to <lb/>be known to your Lord&longs;hip, and was with <lb/>me when I had the&longs;e things under con&longs;i­<lb/>deration) to contrive &longs;ome Air Pump, <lb/>that might not, like the other, need to <lb/>be kept under water (which on divers oc­<lb/>ca&longs;ions is inconvenient) & might be more <lb/>ea&longs;ily manag'd: And after an un&longs;ucce&longs;sful <lb/>try all or two of ways propo&longs;'d by o­<lb/>thers, the la&longs;t nam'd Per&longs;on fitted me <lb/>with a Pump, anon to be de&longs;crib'd. </s> |
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| <s>And <lb/>thus the fir&longs;t Imperfection of the <emph type="italics"/>German<emph.end type="italics"/><lb/>Engine, was in good mea&longs;ure, though <lb/>not perfectly, remedy'd: And to &longs;upply <lb/>the &longs;econd de&longs;ect, it was con&longs;idered that <lb/>it would not perhaps prove impo&longs;&longs;ible to <lb/>leave in the Gla&longs;s to be empty'd, a hole <lb/>large enough to put in a Mans Arm <lb/>cloath'd; and con&longs;equently other Bodies, <lb/>not bigger then it, or longer then the in­<lb/>&longs;ide of the Ve&longs;&longs;el. </s> | <s>And <lb/>thus the fir&longs;t Imperfection of the <emph type="italics"/>German<emph.end type="italics"/><lb/>Engine, was in good mea&longs;ure, though <lb/>not perfectly, remedy'd: And to &longs;upply <lb/>the &longs;econd de&longs;ect, it was con&longs;idered that <lb/>it would not perhaps prove impo&longs;&longs;ible to <lb/>leave in the Gla&longs;s to be empty'd, a hole <lb/>large enough to put in a Mans Arm <lb/>cloath'd; and con&longs;equently other Bodies, <lb/>not bigger then it, or longer then the in­<lb/>&longs;ide of the Ve&longs;&longs;el. </s> |
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| <s><margin.target id="marg27"></margin.target><emph type="italics"/>Geogr. </s> | <s><margin.target id="marg27"></margin.target><emph type="italics"/>Geogr. </s> |
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| <s>Ge­<lb/><gap/>ral.<emph.end type="italics"/> Lib. <lb/><gap/> 19.</s></p><p type="main"> | <s>Ge­<lb/><gap/>ral.<emph.end type="italics"/></s><s> Lib. <lb/><gap/> 19.</s></p><p type="main"> |
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| <s>Again&longs;t the four other above-mention'd <lb/>Con&longs;iderations, we cannot &longs;pend time to <lb/>frame Objections, but mu&longs;t forth with <lb/>proceed to the mention of tho&longs;e things <lb/>that &longs;eem to argue that Air (at lea&longs;t &longs;uch <lb/>as produc'd our bubbles) maybe gene­<lb/>rated of Water and other Bodies. </s></p><p type="main"> | <s>Again&longs;t the four other above-mention'd <lb/>Con&longs;iderations, we cannot &longs;pend time to <lb/>frame Objections, but mu&longs;t forth with <lb/>proceed to the mention of tho&longs;e things <lb/>that &longs;eem to argue that Air (at lea&longs;t &longs;uch <lb/>as produc'd our bubbles) maybe gene­<lb/>rated of Water and other Bodies. </s></p><p type="main"> |
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| <s>A notable in&longs;tance of which, I <lb/>have met with in this &longs;hort Narrative of <lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg39"></arrow.to.target><lb/>the Learned <emph type="italics"/>Zucchius. </s> | <s>A notable in&longs;tance of which, I <lb/>have met with in this &longs;hort Narrative of <lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg39"></arrow.to.target><lb/>the Learned <emph type="italics"/>Zucchius. </s> |
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| <s>Fuveni<emph.end type="italics"/> (&longs;ays he) <lb/><emph type="italics"/>lacertorum &longs;uorum robur: jactanti propo­<lb/>&longs;ita &longs;emel e&longs;t lamina ærea, per an&longs;am in <lb/>medio extantem apprehen&longs;am elevanda è <lb/>tabula marmorea, cui optime congruebat: <lb/>qui primo tanquam rem ludicr am puero <lb/>committendam contemp&longs;it: tum in&longs;tanti­<lb/>bus amicis manum utrámque admovens, <lb/>cum luctatus diu hærentem non removi&longs;&longs;et, <lb/>excu&longs;avit impotentiam, objecta perigrini <lb/>& potenti&longs;simi glutinis interpo&longs;itione, quo <lb/>forti&longs;sime copulante nequiret divelli; do­<lb/>nec vidit ab alio per tabulam facilimè lami­<lb/>nam deduci, & ad extrema product am, & <lb/>actam in tran&longs;ver&longs;um inàe deportari.<emph.end type="italics"/> But <lb/>that we may learn from our own Engine, <pb pagenum="233"/>that two Bodies, though they touch each <lb/>other but in a &longs;mall part of their &longs;urfaces, <lb/>may be made to cohere very &longs;trongly, <lb/>onely by this, That the Air pre&longs;&longs;es much <lb/>more forcibly upon the inferior &longs;uperfi­<lb/>cies of the lowermo&longs;t Body, then upon <lb/>the upper &longs;urface of the &longs;ame: We will <lb/>hereunto annex the following Experi­<lb/>ment, though out of the order wherein <lb/>they were made. <lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg40"></arrow.to.target></s></p><p type="margin"> | <s>Fuveni<emph.end type="italics"/> (&longs;ays he) <lb/><emph type="italics"/>lacertorum &longs;uorum robur: jactanti propo­<lb/>&longs;ita &longs;emel e&longs;t lamina ærea, per an&longs;am in <lb/>medio extantem apprehen&longs;am elevanda è <lb/>tabula marmorea, cui optime congruebat: <lb/>qui primo tanquam rem ludicr am puero <lb/>committendam contemp&longs;it: tum in&longs;tanti­<lb/>bus amicis manum utrámque admovens, <lb/>cum luctatus diu hærentem non removi&longs;&longs;et, <lb/>excu&longs;avit impotentiam, objecta perigrini <lb/>& potenti&longs;simi glutinis interpo&longs;itione, quo <lb/>forti&longs;sime copulante nequiret divelli; do­<lb/>nec vidit ab alio per tabulam facilimè lami­<lb/>nam deduci, & ad extrema product am, & <lb/>actam in tran&longs;ver&longs;um inàe deportari.<emph.end type="italics"/></s><s> But <lb/>that we may learn from our own Engine, <pb pagenum="233"/>that two Bodies, though they touch each <lb/>other but in a &longs;mall part of their &longs;urfaces, <lb/>may be made to cohere very &longs;trongly, <lb/>onely by this, That the Air pre&longs;&longs;es much <lb/>more forcibly upon the inferior &longs;uperfi­<lb/>cies of the lowermo&longs;t Body, then upon <lb/>the upper &longs;urface of the &longs;ame: We will <lb/>hereunto annex the following Experi­<lb/>ment, though out of the order wherein <lb/>they were made. <lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg40"></arrow.to.target></s></p><p type="margin"> |
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| <s><margin.target id="marg39"></margin.target><emph type="italics"/>P. Nic. <lb/></s> | <s><margin.target id="marg39"></margin.target><emph type="italics"/>P. Nic. <lb/></s> |
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| <s>I &longs;aid, <pb pagenum="257"/>even in our Climate, becau&longs;e that is tem­<lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg42"></arrow.to.target><lb/>perate enough; and as far as my ob&longs;er­<lb/>vations a&longs;&longs;i&longs;t me to conjecture, the Air in <lb/>many other more Northern Countries <lb/>may be much thicker, and able to &longs;upport <lb/>a greater weight: which is not to be <lb/>doubted of, if there be no mi&longs;take in <lb/>what is Recorded concerning the <emph type="italics"/>Hollan­<lb/>ders,<emph.end type="italics"/> that were forc'd by the Ice to Win­<lb/>ter in <emph type="italics"/>Nova Zembla,<emph.end type="italics"/> namely, That <lb/>they found there &longs;o conden&longs;'d an Air, that <lb/>they could not make their Clock goe, <lb/>ev'n by a very great addition to the <lb/>weights that were wont to move it. </s></p><p type="margin"> | <s>I &longs;aid, <pb pagenum="257"/>even in our Climate, becau&longs;e that is tem­<lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg42"></arrow.to.target><lb/>perate enough; and as far as my ob&longs;er­<lb/>vations a&longs;&longs;i&longs;t me to conjecture, the Air in <lb/>many other more Northern Countries <lb/>may be much thicker, and able to &longs;upport <lb/>a greater weight: which is not to be <lb/>doubted of, if there be no mi&longs;take in <lb/>what is Recorded concerning the <emph type="italics"/>Hollan­<lb/>ders,<emph.end type="italics"/> that were forc'd by the Ice to Win­<lb/>ter in <emph type="italics"/>Nova Zembla,<emph.end type="italics"/> namely, That <lb/>they found there &longs;o conden&longs;'d an Air, that <lb/>they could not make their Clock goe, <lb/>ev'n by a very great addition to the <lb/>weights that were wont to move it. </s></p><p type="margin"> |
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| <s><margin.target id="marg42"></margin.target><emph type="italics"/>Aere &longs;rig<gap/>­<lb/>do exi&longs;tcate <lb/>tardius mo­<lb/><gap/>entur Au­<lb/>tomat a <expan abbr="quã">quam</expan> <lb/>acre ca<gap/>ida, <lb/>adco qui­<lb/>dem ut Au­<lb/>tomaton <lb/>quod Delgæ <lb/>in Nova <lb/>Zembla a­<lb/>gentes in æ­<lb/>dibus &longs;u<gap/>s <lb/>collocave­<lb/>runt, omal­<lb/>no à motis <lb/>ce&longs;&longs;ave<gap/>it <lb/><gap/>t&longs;i m<gap/><lb/>malus toa­<lb/>dus ei addidi&longs;&longs;ent quam antea ferre &longs;olebat.<emph.end type="italics"/> Varenius Geo: Genevat <gap/>. <lb/></s> | <s><margin.target id="marg42"></margin.target><emph type="italics"/>Aere &longs;rig<gap/>­<lb/>do exi&longs;tcate <lb/>tardius mo­<lb/><gap/>entur Au­<lb/>tomat a <expan abbr="quã">quam</expan> <lb/>acre ca<gap/>ida, <lb/>adco qui­<lb/>dem ut Au­<lb/>tomaton <lb/>quod Delgæ <lb/>in Nova <lb/>Zembla a­<lb/>gentes in æ­<lb/>dibus &longs;u<gap/>s <lb/>collocave­<lb/>runt, omal­<lb/>no à motis <lb/>ce&longs;&longs;ave<gap/>it <lb/><gap/>t&longs;i m<gap/><lb/>malus toa­<lb/>dus ei addidi&longs;&longs;ent quam antea ferre &longs;olebat.<emph.end type="italics"/></s><s> Varenius Geo: Genevat <gap/>. <lb/></s> |
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| <s>111. Propo: 7. pag. </s> | <s>111. Propo: 7. pag. </s> |
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| <s>648.</s></p><p type="main"> | <s>648.</s></p><p type="main"> |
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| <s>I &longs;uppo&longs;e Your Lord&longs;hip will readily <lb/>take notice, that I might very ea&longs;ily have <lb/>di&longs;cour&longs;ed much more fully and accuratly <lb/>then I have done, again&longs;t the common o­<lb/>pinion touching Suction, and touching na­<lb/>tures hatred of a <emph type="italics"/>Vacuum.<emph.end type="italics"/> But I was willing <lb/>to keep my &longs;elf to tho&longs;e con&longs;iderations <lb/>touching the&longs;e matters, that might be ve­<lb/>rifi'd by our Engine it &longs;elf, e&longs;pecially, &longs;ince, <lb/>as I &longs;aid at fir&longs;t, it would take up too much <lb/>time to in&longs;i&longs;t particularly upon all the Re­<lb/>flections that may be made even upon our <lb/>two la&longs;t Experiments. </s> | <s>I &longs;uppo&longs;e Your Lord&longs;hip will readily <lb/>take notice, that I might very ea&longs;ily have <lb/>di&longs;cour&longs;ed much more fully and accuratly <lb/>then I have done, again&longs;t the common o­<lb/>pinion touching Suction, and touching na­<lb/>tures hatred of a <emph type="italics"/>Vacuum.<emph.end type="italics"/></s><s> But I was willing <lb/>to keep my &longs;elf to tho&longs;e con&longs;iderations <lb/>touching the&longs;e matters, that might be ve­<lb/>rifi'd by our Engine it &longs;elf, e&longs;pecially, &longs;ince, <lb/>as I &longs;aid at fir&longs;t, it would take up too much <lb/>time to in&longs;i&longs;t particularly upon all the Re­<lb/>flections that may be made even upon our <lb/>two la&longs;t Experiments. </s> |
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| <s>And therefore, <pb pagenum="258"/>pa&longs;&longs;ing to the next, I &longs;hall leave it to your <lb/>Lord&longs;hip to con&longs;ider how far the&longs;e tryals <lb/>of ours will either confirm or disfavor <lb/>the new Doctrine of &longs;everal eminent Na­<lb/>turali&longs;ts, who teach, That in all motion <lb/>there is nece&longs;&longs;arily a Circle of Bodies, as <lb/>they &longs;peak, moving together; and whe­<lb/>ther the Circles in &longs;uch motion be an Ac­<lb/>cidental or Con&longs;equential thing or no. </s></p><p type="main"> | <s>And therefore, <pb pagenum="258"/>pa&longs;&longs;ing to the next, I &longs;hall leave it to your <lb/>Lord&longs;hip to con&longs;ider how far the&longs;e tryals <lb/>of ours will either confirm or disfavor <lb/>the new Doctrine of &longs;everal eminent Na­<lb/>turali&longs;ts, who teach, That in all motion <lb/>there is nece&longs;&longs;arily a Circle of Bodies, as <lb/>they &longs;peak, moving together; and whe­<lb/>ther the Circles in &longs;uch motion be an Ac­<lb/>cidental or Con&longs;equential thing or no. </s></p><p type="main"> |
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| <s>And though that Conjecture which <lb/>we la&longs;t made &longs;hould not be rejected, yet if <lb/>we were further pre&longs;&longs;'d to a&longs;&longs;ign a rea&longs;on <lb/>why the Air &longs;hould abound with &longs;uch Par­<lb/>ticles, as we there &longs;uppo&longs;e, more at one <pb pagenum="316"/>time then another, we are not yet pro­<lb/>vided of any better An&longs;wer, then this <lb/>general one, That the Air about us, <lb/>and much more that within the Receiver, <lb/>may be much alter'd by &longs;uch cau&longs;es as few <lb/>are aware of: For, not to repeat tho&longs;e <lb/>probable Arguments of this A&longs;&longs;ertion <lb/>which we have occa&longs;ionally mention'd <lb/>here and there in the former part of this <lb/>Epi&longs;tle, we will here &longs;et down two or <lb/>three In&longs;tances to verifie the &longs;ame Propo­<lb/>&longs;ition. </s> | <s>And though that Conjecture which <lb/>we la&longs;t made &longs;hould not be rejected, yet if <lb/>we were further pre&longs;&longs;'d to a&longs;&longs;ign a rea&longs;on <lb/>why the Air &longs;hould abound with &longs;uch Par­<lb/>ticles, as we there &longs;uppo&longs;e, more at one <pb pagenum="316"/>time then another, we are not yet pro­<lb/>vided of any better An&longs;wer, then this <lb/>general one, That the Air about us, <lb/>and much more that within the Receiver, <lb/>may be much alter'd by &longs;uch cau&longs;es as few <lb/>are aware of: For, not to repeat tho&longs;e <lb/>probable Arguments of this A&longs;&longs;ertion <lb/>which we have occa&longs;ionally mention'd <lb/>here and there in the former part of this <lb/>Epi&longs;tle, we will here &longs;et down two or <lb/>three In&longs;tances to verifie the &longs;ame Propo­<lb/>&longs;ition. </s> |
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| <s>Fir&longs;t, I finde that the Learned <lb/><emph type="italics"/>Fo&longs;ephus Aco&longs;ta,<emph.end type="italics"/> among other Judicious <lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg50"></arrow.to.target><lb/>Ob&longs;ervations he made in <emph type="italics"/>America,<emph.end type="italics"/> hath <lb/>this concerning the Effects of &longs;ome <lb/>Winds; <emph type="italics"/>There are<emph.end type="italics"/> (&longs;ays he) <emph type="italics"/>Winds which <lb/>naturally trouble the Water of the Sea, and <lb/>make it green, and black; others, clear as <lb/>Cry&longs;tal.<emph.end type="italics"/> Next, we have ob&longs;erv'd, That <lb/>though we conveyd into the Receiver our <lb/>Scales, and the <emph type="italics"/>Pendula<emph.end type="italics"/> formerly men­<lb/>tion'd, clean and bright; yet after the Re­<lb/>ceiver had been empty'd, and the Air let in <lb/>again, the glo&longs;s or lu&longs;tre both of the one, <lb/>and of the other, appear'd tarni&longs;h'd by a <lb/>beginning ru&longs;t. </s> | <s>Fir&longs;t, I finde that the Learned <lb/><emph type="italics"/>Fo&longs;ephus Aco&longs;ta,<emph.end type="italics"/> among other Judicious <lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg50"></arrow.to.target><lb/>Ob&longs;ervations he made in <emph type="italics"/>America,<emph.end type="italics"/> hath <lb/>this concerning the Effects of &longs;ome <lb/>Winds; <emph type="italics"/>There are<emph.end type="italics"/> (&longs;ays he) <emph type="italics"/>Winds which <lb/>naturally trouble the Water of the Sea, and <lb/>make it green, and black; others, clear as <lb/>Cry&longs;tal.<emph.end type="italics"/></s><s> Next, we have ob&longs;erv'd, That <lb/>though we conveyd into the Receiver our <lb/>Scales, and the <emph type="italics"/>Pendula<emph.end type="italics"/> formerly men­<lb/>tion'd, clean and bright; yet after the Re­<lb/>ceiver had been empty'd, and the Air let in <lb/>again, the glo&longs;s or lu&longs;tre both of the one, <lb/>and of the other, appear'd tarni&longs;h'd by a <lb/>beginning ru&longs;t. </s> |
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| <s>And in the la&longs;t place, we <lb/>will &longs;ubjoyn an Ob&longs;ervation we made <lb/>&longs;ome Years ago, which hath been heard <lb/>of by divers Ingenious Men, and &longs;een <pb pagenum="317"/>by &longs;ome of them: We had, with pure <lb/>Spirit of Wine, drawn a Tincture out of <lb/>a certain Concrete which u&longs;es to be rec­<lb/>koned among Mineral Bodies; And this <lb/>Tincture being very pure and tran&longs;parent, <lb/>we did, becau&longs;e we put a great value upon <lb/>it, put into a Cry&longs;tal Viol which we care­<lb/>fully &longs;topp'd, and lock'd up in a Pre&longs;s a­<lb/>mong &longs;ome other things that we &longs;pecial­<lb/>ly priz'd. </s> | <s>And in the la&longs;t place, we <lb/>will &longs;ubjoyn an Ob&longs;ervation we made <lb/>&longs;ome Years ago, which hath been heard <lb/>of by divers Ingenious Men, and &longs;een <pb pagenum="317"/>by &longs;ome of them: We had, with pure <lb/>Spirit of Wine, drawn a Tincture out of <lb/>a certain Concrete which u&longs;es to be rec­<lb/>koned among Mineral Bodies; And this <lb/>Tincture being very pure and tran&longs;parent, <lb/>we did, becau&longs;e we put a great value upon <lb/>it, put into a Cry&longs;tal Viol which we care­<lb/>fully &longs;topp'd, and lock'd up in a Pre&longs;s a­<lb/>mong &longs;ome other things that we &longs;pecial­<lb/>ly priz'd. </s> |
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| <s>The&longs;e (I &longs;ay) and &longs;ome other Ob&longs;er­<lb/>vations, I &longs;hall now forbear to in&longs;i&longs;t on, <lb/>becau&longs;e I hold it not unfit, before we <lb/>come to con&longs;ider the u&longs;e of Re&longs;piration, <lb/>that we acquaint Your Lord&longs;hip with an <lb/>Ingenious Conjecture, that was made at <lb/>the cau&longs;e of the ha&longs;ty death of the Ani­<lb/>mals our Engine kill'd: namely, That it <lb/>was not the want of Air that de&longs;troy'd <lb/>them, but the Pre&longs;&longs;ure of the innate Air <lb/>in the cavity of the Che&longs;t; as if the <lb/>Spring of this Air being no longer coun­<lb/>terballanc'd by the ambient Air, was there­<lb/>by become &longs;o &longs;trong, that it kept the <lb/><emph type="italics"/>Thorax<emph.end type="italics"/> forcibly di&longs;tended, and hinder'd its <lb/>wonted contraction; and &longs;o compre&longs;&longs;'d <lb/>the Lungs and their Ve&longs;&longs;els, as to ob&longs;truct <lb/>the Circulation of the Blood. </s> | <s>The&longs;e (I &longs;ay) and &longs;ome other Ob&longs;er­<lb/>vations, I &longs;hall now forbear to in&longs;i&longs;t on, <lb/>becau&longs;e I hold it not unfit, before we <lb/>come to con&longs;ider the u&longs;e of Re&longs;piration, <lb/>that we acquaint Your Lord&longs;hip with an <lb/>Ingenious Conjecture, that was made at <lb/>the cau&longs;e of the ha&longs;ty death of the Ani­<lb/>mals our Engine kill'd: namely, That it <lb/>was not the want of Air that de&longs;troy'd <lb/>them, but the Pre&longs;&longs;ure of the innate Air <lb/>in the cavity of the Che&longs;t; as if the <lb/>Spring of this Air being no longer coun­<lb/>terballanc'd by the ambient Air, was there­<lb/>by become &longs;o &longs;trong, that it kept the <lb/><emph type="italics"/>Thorax<emph.end type="italics"/> forcibly di&longs;tended, and hinder'd its <lb/>wonted contraction; and &longs;o compre&longs;&longs;'d <lb/>the Lungs and their Ve&longs;&longs;els, as to ob&longs;truct <lb/>the Circulation of the Blood. </s> |
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| <s>And this <pb pagenum="343"/>Conjecture, as it is &longs;pecious enough, &longs;o I <lb/>might have admitted it for true; but that <lb/>I con&longs;ider'd, that (not to mention that <lb/>one, e&longs;pecially of the Animals kill'd in <lb/>our Engine, &longs;eem'd manife&longs;tly for a pret­<lb/>ty while, and not long before he dy'd, to <lb/>move his <emph type="italics"/>Thorax,<emph.end type="italics"/> as if he exerci&longs;'d Re&longs;pi­<lb/>ration) the diligent <emph type="italics"/>Wallæus<emph.end type="italics"/> relates, That <lb/>he divers times ob&longs;erv'd, in the Di&longs;&longs;ecti­<lb/>on of live Bodies, that the Membrane <lb/>that inve&longs;ts the Lungs, had Pores in it <lb/>as big as the larger &longs;ort of Peas, which a­<lb/>grees with the Ob&longs;ervations of Chyrur­<lb/>gions and Phy&longs;itians, <emph type="italics"/>viz.<emph.end type="italics"/> That matter <lb/>collected in the <emph type="italics"/>Thorax,<emph.end type="italics"/> has penetrated in­<lb/>to the Lungs, and been di&longs;charged by <lb/>coughing. </s> | <s>And this <pb pagenum="343"/>Conjecture, as it is &longs;pecious enough, &longs;o I <lb/>might have admitted it for true; but that <lb/>I con&longs;ider'd, that (not to mention that <lb/>one, e&longs;pecially of the Animals kill'd in <lb/>our Engine, &longs;eem'd manife&longs;tly for a pret­<lb/>ty while, and not long before he dy'd, to <lb/>move his <emph type="italics"/>Thorax,<emph.end type="italics"/> as if he exerci&longs;'d Re&longs;pi­<lb/>ration) the diligent <emph type="italics"/>Wallæus<emph.end type="italics"/> relates, That <lb/>he divers times ob&longs;erv'd, in the Di&longs;&longs;ecti­<lb/>on of live Bodies, that the Membrane <lb/>that inve&longs;ts the Lungs, had Pores in it <lb/>as big as the larger &longs;ort of Peas, which a­<lb/>grees with the Ob&longs;ervations of Chyrur­<lb/>gions and Phy&longs;itians, <emph type="italics"/>viz.<emph.end type="italics"/></s><s> That matter <lb/>collected in the <emph type="italics"/>Thorax,<emph.end type="italics"/> has penetrated in­<lb/>to the Lungs, and been di&longs;charged by <lb/>coughing. </s> |
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| <s>And I remember too, that mo&longs;t <lb/>of the Animals we kill'd in our Engine <lb/>were Birds, of who&longs;e Lungs <emph type="italics"/>Harvey<emph.end type="italics"/><lb/>&longs;omewhere informs us, That he ob­<lb/>&longs;erv'd them very manife&longs;tly to open at <lb/>their Extremities into the <emph type="italics"/>Abdomen.<emph.end type="italics"/><lb/>And by &longs;uch Perforations we may well <lb/>&longs;uppo&longs;e the pa&longs;&longs;age free betwixt the exter­<lb/>nal Air and that in the <emph type="italics"/>Abdomen:<emph.end type="italics"/> But this <lb/>Conjecture may be further con&longs;ider'd. <lb/></s> | <s>And I remember too, that mo&longs;t <lb/>of the Animals we kill'd in our Engine <lb/>were Birds, of who&longs;e Lungs <emph type="italics"/>Harvey<emph.end type="italics"/><lb/>&longs;omewhere informs us, That he ob­<lb/>&longs;erv'd them very manife&longs;tly to open at <lb/>their Extremities into the <emph type="italics"/>Abdomen.<emph.end type="italics"/><lb/>And by &longs;uch Perforations we may well <lb/>&longs;uppo&longs;e the pa&longs;&longs;age free betwixt the exter­<lb/>nal Air and that in the <emph type="italics"/>Abdomen:<emph.end type="italics"/> But this <lb/>Conjecture may be further con&longs;ider'd. <lb/></s> |
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