. 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. ing made trial upon two live moles, one , included in a fmall receiver, was between two and three minutes inkilling; whereas, the other being detained under water, did not there-continue full a minute and a quarter, before it finally ceasd from gi-ving any fign of life. Hence Yis not impoflible,, that the- want of refpi-ration, Ihould difpatchaa animal in as little time, as is mentiond in the
. 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. ing made trial upon two live moles, one , included in a fmall receiver, was between two and three minutes inkilling; whereas, the other being detained under water, did not there-continue full a minute and a quarter, before it finally ceasd from gi-ving any fign of life. Hence Yis not impoflible,, that the- want of refpi-ration, Ihould difpatchaa animal in as little time, as is mentiond in the €xperi- 6jS Thi Pneumatical Bxpmments defmdtd. ^SJJJ5**?experlment. And, indeed, our author fhould either have provd it im-^^^^^ poflible, for the want of air to deftroy animals fo foon j or have given usfome better account of the phenomenon. Twere a needlefs task, to examine any more of our authors objedbionsto particular experiments, fince thej^ wholly proceed upon the fuppofitionof his Funiculus i which has been iufficiently proved a chimsera : whereasthe fpring, as well as the weight of the air, is not only allowed by himfelf,but demonftrable by experiments uncontroverted betwixt Mr. (>#apprehended my notion of the air. For, when I lay the air has S!Jjftfud*gravity, and an elaftic power ; or, that the air is, in great part,pumpd out of the receiver; *tis plain, that I take the air, in the obviousfenfe, for part of the atmofpherc, which we breathe, and wherein wemove : nor do I find, that any other of my readers underftand me other-wife. But Mr. Hobls thinks he has fufficiently confuted me, if, in fbmecafes, he proves, that there is a fubtile fubftance, or sether, in fome places,which I take not to be filld with air ; and that the jether has, or wantsfome properties, which I deny, or afcribe to the air : but I do not denythat the atmofphere, or fluid body, which furrounds the terraqueousglobe, may, bef
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