A disquisition about the final causes of natural things; wherein it is inquir'd, whether, and (if at all) with what cautions, a naturalist should admit them? / By the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esq; To which are subjoyn'd, by way of appendix, some uncommon observations about vitiated sight. By the same author.

  • Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691
Date:
1688
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Credit: A disquisition about the final causes of natural things; wherein it is inquir'd, whether, and (if at all) with what cautions, a naturalist should admit them? / By the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esq; To which are subjoyn'd, by way of appendix, some uncommon observations about vitiated sight. By the same author. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    * It a deniqtte mtllas unquam rationes circa res naturales-y a pne^ quem Dens aut Natura in its faciendis phi propofuit, defame mus ; qui non tantam nobis debemus arrogare ut ejus confiliormn participes ej]e put emus : Cartefius Trine ip. Philofop. Parte prima Artie. 23. : ; ■ ; can Ihe Preface. the Confideration of the Ends of Things; becaufe the World being, accord¬ ing to them , made by Chance, no Ends of any Thing can be fuppos’d to have been intended. And on the contrary, * Monfzeur Des Cartes, and moft of his Followers, luppofe all the Ends of God in Things Corporeal to be lb Sublime, that ’twere Prelumption in Man to think his Reafon