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<titleStmt><title n="SciB1684"><title>Experiments and considerations about the porosity of bodies, in two essays</title>
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<publicationStmt><p>Distributed as part of the Lampeter Corpus</publicationStmt>
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<idNo type="Wing">B3966</idNo>
<idNo type="Lamp">T454/2266</idNo>
<date>1684</date>
<pubPlace>London</pubPlace>
<bookseller>Samuel Smith</bookseller>
<pubFormat>octavo</pubFormat>
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<persName>Robert Boyle</persName>
<birth><date>1627</date> Lismore Castle (Co. Cork; Ireland)</birth>
<residence>Ireland; Eton; Stalbridge (Dorsetshire); Geneva; Florence; Rome;  Geneva; London; Ireland; Oxford; London</residence>
<education>Eton; private Tutors; universities on the Continent</education>
<occupation>scientist; chemist; author; governor of the Corporation for the Spread of  the Gospel in New England; director of the East India Company</occupation>
<socecstatus>professions (academic)</socecstatus>
<socecstatuspat>aristocracy (earl)</socecstatuspat>
<biogNote>Royal Society; repeatedly declined a peerage</biogNote>
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<keywords scheme="lamStruc"><term>front (address)</term><term> body</term><term> back</term></keywords>
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