Copy 1, Volume 1

The works .... / [John Huxham].

  • John Huxham
Date:
1788
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Credit: The works .... / [John Huxham]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    XVlll not as fudden and certain a Senfatlon of the one as of the other ? Which perhaps is not fo’ eafily to be explained from a mere Ceflation of Motion; nor do pofitive Effedls flow from a Ample Privation, or Relation, but many a6lu- ally arile from Cold, as the Expanfion of fome Bodies, the Condenfation of others, permanent Changes, and avail manyother Things. Water, when it freezes, is expanded, an Argument that it receives fomething ab extra, otherwife, from the mere Abfence of Motion and Heat, it would be condenfed ; as Metals, when ia Fufion, are expanded, but when they grow cold and rigid they are again contraefted.—Be- Ades the VAuer that flows from Ice, whea thawed, is much more cold than it was before Congelation, and is unfit for many Ufes after, that it was before proper for j this every old Woman knows — nay thole that drink Ice- Water are thence fubjedl to feveral Diforders.—- Hence Juvenal' “ Quis tfumidumGuttur miraturinyf//>/^2^.tf’*' I don’t well fee indeed how Water can Be con- gealed by the mere Privation of Motion, if, with the greateft Philofophers,' we fuppofe that its Particles are fpherical, as feems moil pro- bable, becaule Water never acquires any Heat by the moft violent Agitation ; for the Fric- tion (the Caufe of Heat) between Spheres is the lead that can poflibly be affigned, for it plainly
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