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A28956	A defence of the doctrine touching the spring and weight of the air propos'd by Mr. R. Boyle in his new physico-mechanical experiments, against the objections of Franciscus Linus ; wherewith the objector's funicular hypothesis is also examin'd, by the author of those experiments.	Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.; Sharrock, Robert, 1630-1684.	1662 (1662)	Wing B3941; ESTC R26549	92,713	134

facilitate their Task if not keep men from putting them upon it For though Mr. Hobbs and Linus have examin'd my Writings upon Principles wherein they differ as much from each other as from me yet neither have they seen cause to deny any thing that I deliver as Experiment nor have their Objections been considerable whether as to Number or to Weight against the Applications I have made of my Principles to solve the Phaenomena So that usually without objecting any Incongruity to my particular Explications they are fain to fall upon the Hypotheses themselves in whose Defence I think I may with the more Reason expect to be seconded because not only I have endeavour'd as I formerly noted to lay the grounds of answering such Objections as I foresaw might arise but I have also to prevent or ease their labour written the two first Parts of my Defence against Linus without being oblig'd to do so for the Vindicating of my Explications which are particularly maintain'd in the third Part. I know not whether I may venture to adde on this Occasion That those who have taken notice of the usefulness of Experiments to true Philosophy and have observ'd that neverthelesse the Difficulty Trouble and Charge of making them is such that even in this Learned Age of ours there are very few Bacon's or Mersennus's to be met with and those who have either made themselves or at least seen others make Experiments even such as those I have publish'd with the care I am wont to think my self oblig'd to employ on such Occasions will perhaps not only believe that they cost me far more time and pains then they that have not made or seen such tryals are apt to imagine but will possibly think it enough for a Person that is not by Profession a Scholar to make them carefully and set them down faithfully and will allow him to let others Vindicate the Truths he may have the good fortune to discover especially when there are so many fitter for it then he who have as well as his Adversaries more leisure to write Disputations then opportunity to prosecute Experiments the latter of which to be perform'd as it ought to be doth in many cases besides some Dexterity scarce to be gain'd but by Practice require sometimes more Diligence and oftentimes too more Cost then most are willing or then many are able to bestow upon them To be short though if any thing very worthy to be taken notice of by me be suggested against any of my chief Opinions or Explications I may either take an occasion to say somewhat to it elsewhere or at least have an opportunity to consider it in a Review wherein I may alter mend supply vindicate or retract divers Passages of my other Writings yet I would not have it expected that I should exchange a Book with every one that is at leisure to write one against a Vacuum or about the Air. Which Declaration I make not that I think it will or ought to hinder any man from making use of his liberty to expresse a dissent if he sees cause but for these two Reasons The one That my silence might not injure either the Truth or my self by tempting men to think that whatever I do not answer I cannot but might give unbiass'd and judicious Readers a Caution to allow as little of Advantage to the Writings of my adversaries upon the account of their being unanswer'd by me as if I were no longer in the World And the other That I may not hinder those who would reply to such Adversaries by leaveing them an apprehension that either I may prevent them or they me To conclude I see no cause to despair that whether or no my Writings be protected the Truths they hold forth will in time in spite of opposition establish themselves in the Minds of men as the Circulation of the Bloud and other formerly much contested Truths have already done My Humour has naturally made me too careful not to offend those I dissent from to make it necessary for any man to be my Adversary upon the account of Personal Injuries or Provocations And as for any whom either Judgment or Envy may invite to contend that the things I have communicated to the World deserved not so much Applause as they have had the luck to be entertain'd with that shall make no Quarrel betwixt us For perhaps I am my self as much of that mind as he and however I shall not scruple to prosess my self one of those who is more desirous to spend his time usefully then to have the Glory of leaving nothing that was ever written against him unanswer'd and who is more sollicitous to pursue the wayes of discovering Truth then to have it thought that he never was so much subject to Humane Frailties as to miss it A DEFENCE Of Mr. R. BOYLE's EXPLICATIONS of his Physico-mechanical EXPERIMENTS against FRANCISCUS LINUS The I. Part. Wherein the Adversaries Objections against the Elaterists are examined CHAP. I. A Newly published Treatise De Corporum inseparabilitate being brought to my Hands I find several Chapters of it employ'd to oppose the Explications I ventur'd to give of some of my new Experiments touching the Spring of the Air. Wherefore though I am very little delighted to be engag'd in Controversies and though I be not at present without Employments enough of a private and of a publick Nature to make it unseasonable for me to be by a Work of this sort diverted from them yet for the Reasons specified in the Preface I hold it not amiss to examine briefly what is objected against the thing I have delivered and the rather partly because the Learned Author whoever he be for 't is the Title-Page of his Book that first acquainted me with the name of Franciscus Linus having forborne provoking Language in his Objections allowes me in answering them to comply with my Inclinations Custom of exercising Civility even where I most dissent in point of Judgement Besides the Author himselfe has somewhat facilitated my Reply to him by directing me in the ninth Page to some Books and Passages that I had not when I publisht my Epistle either seen or taken notice of As indeed there are besides some of these several other Discourses that treat of the Torrecellian Experiments which though by the names of their Authors I guess to be learnedly written I have not to this day had opportunity to peruse my stay in the remoter parts of Ireland whither Philosophical Books were not in that time of publick Confusion brought having kept me from hearing of divers of them till they were all bought up Which I here mention to excuse my self if I have not taken notice of some things or passages to be met with in these Writings which their Learned Authors or Inquisitive Readers might justly perhaps expect I should take some notice of in case those Writings had fallen into my hands But to digress no further 'T is true indeed and

A DEFENCE Of the Doctrine touching the Spring and Weight Of the AIR Propos'd by Mr. R. BOYLE in his New Physico-Mechanical Experiments Against the Objections of FRANCISCVS LINVS Wherewith the Objector's FUNICULAR HYPOTHESIS is also examin'd By the Author of those Experiments LONDON Printed by J. G. for Thomas Robinson Bookseller in Oxon 1662. The Publisher to the Reader Friendly Reader YOu may possibly in this Volume have expected the Appendix which the Author heretofore promised and has intended shall contain some additional Experiments to those which were formerly publish'd and are here now reprinted in this Second Edition These following Answers to Franciscus Linus and Mr. Hobbes are presented in compensation of the delay and for your forbearance of that Appendix which ere long you may expect in kind For the Author having hinted the Promise seems thereby to acknowledge the Debt and to be content to continue the Obligation to see it performed And these ought the rather to be his excuse because the writing these Answers and publishing the Sceptical Chymist and some other Discourses have been the principal hindrances to that Piece which is really so near a readiness that part of it has lyen at the Press these six Moneths But yet it being not all perfected the Stationer was loth to delay any longer the Publication of these for which he has been so frequently call'd upon And they though a Latine Edition is intended appear now the rather in English that they may accompany the Second Edition of the Original Experiments which were printed first in that Language in Octavo and that instead of the promised Appendix they may complete the bulk of the Quarto Volume As for that part of this Piece that concerns Mr. Hobbes it might have been larger but the information that the Author had that the learned Dr. Wallis was writing against some passages in Mr. Hobbes his Dialogues as well that concerning the Air as the rest was the occasion why his H. would make no animadversion on some passages therein and thought it not fit to enlarge upon others And for the Errata of the Press I hope they will not be many however the Author as to these is to be excused who never in regard to his Eyes and Impediments on other occasions gives himself the trouble of Corrections and Revises neither could the Publisher much attend the Press it being printed in a distant place from his usual abode If as I wish you shall find this jealousie of mine to have been causless you will have reason to give the Piece that is so kindly offered and leads you such rare and untrodden paths in the best way of Natural Philosophy the fairer entertainment and acceptance Farewell Ro. Sh. THE AVTHOR's PREFACE AND DECLARATION THey that know how indispos'd I naturally am to Contentiousness will I presume wonder to see me publickly engaged in two Controversies at once But that I am still as averse as ever from entering into Disputes that may handsomly be declin'd the way wherein I have managed the following Controversies will I hope evince And the Inducements I now have to appear in publick are such that it would be hard for me to resist the being prevail'd on by them For in the first place I was by Name as it were challenged by a person who undertook to disprove not one or two of my Conjectures but as much of the whole Body of my Treatise as concern'd the Spring of the Air which most of my Explications suppose And this being done by a Learned Man who writes very confidently of the goodness of his Hypothesis and Arguments and his Book being soon after follow'd by another written by Mr. Hobbs a man of Name in the World there seem'd to be some danger that so early an Opposition might oppress the Doctrine I had propos'd before it was well understood and duly ponder'd Wherefore I fear'd I might be wanting to the Truth and my self if I should at such a time be altogether silent especially since I might probably divert many who would otherwise be forward to appear against us by letting them see how defensible our Doctrine is even against such Adversaries as hose I have reply'd to And this course I the rather chose that in case I should henceforward comply with those who would have me forbear to write any further of these Controversies it might not be presently inferr'd from my silence that a good Cause cannot enable a Pen no better then mine to defend it But I scarce doubt but that intelligent Readers especially those that are imbued with the Principles of the Corpuscularian Philosophy will be much more apt to think that I had reason to write the following Discourses then to think that I had any to make them so prolix And especially ingenious men that are accustomed to admit nothing that either is not intelligible or is precarious will think divers of the Objections I reply to needed no Answers or at least no solemn ones But to these I have four things to represent And First That which not a little swells the bulk of the following Treatises is the inserting those passages of my Adversaries that I examine in their own words which being a Practice that I expect from any that shall think fit to animadvert upon any Opinion or Argument of mine I thought it but equitable to do what I desir'd to have done to me though oftentimes I could not do it in a little room Next I was the more willing to prosecute some of Franciscus Linus his Objections because the fear of being reduc'd to grant a Vacuum has so prevail'd with many eminent persons bred up in the received Philosophy of the Schools that though they disagree both with him and among themselves about the particular manner of solving the Phaenomena of the Torricellian Experiment yet they agree in ascribing them to some extremely-rarefi'd substance that fills up the space deserted by the Quicksilver So that this Opinion as to the main being approved by many eminent Schoalrs especially of that most learned Order of the Jesuites to whom perhaps its Congruity to some Articles of their Religion chiefly recommends it I was willing to pay them that respect as not to dissent from persons divers of whom for their eminence in Mathematicks and other Learning I much esteem without shewing that I do it not but upon Considerations that I think weighty Thirdly though the Examiners Hypothesis have but few and not very considerable Arguments to countenance it yet his Objections against our Doctrine the Reply to which takes up the first Part of the following Treatise are such as though they may be solidly answered by any that throughly understands our Hypothesis yet they may chance puzzle such Readers as do not and these possiblywill prove more then a few And Lastly because that sometimes when the Argument objected did not perhaps deserve to be much insisted on the Argument treated of deserv'd to be considered I thought it