Some considerations touching the usefulnesse of experimental naturall philosophy. Propos'd in familiar discourses to a friend, by way of invitation to the study of it / [Anon].

  • Robert Boyle
Date:
1663
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Credit: Some considerations touching the usefulnesse of experimental naturall philosophy. Propos'd in familiar discourses to a friend, by way of invitation to the study of it / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (1 ?) Writing entire Treatifes of fome particular Ones. So Pliny tells us,a That Themifon the Phyfitian publifht a Volume (for a x>h. lib. 15] fo he call'd it) of that vulgar and defpifed Herb called Plantain *• ^8*.^ ^ So the fame b Author tells us, That Amphilohcus writ a Vo- ca^z6[ lume Ve Medic a Herba, & Cytifa • and King c ffuba another, c id: lib. of a fort of Nymphaa by him found on Mount Atlas. And caP-7* in our Times, not to mention thofe many Books that have been written by Phyfitians, Of the Structure of Mans Body, and VeUfti Partinm: Carolus Rofenbergius writ fome Years fince an entire Book of Rofes, which he calls his Rhodologia: tMartinu* Blochwitius fince publifhed another Book of Elder, under the Title of Kyinatomia Sambuci. Among the Chy^ miffs, ^Angelus Sala publifht in diftindt Treatifes, his Vitrio- logia,Tartarologia, Saccharologia: Untzerus alfo writ peculi¬ ar Tr3&s, Ve CMercurio, VeSulphure, De Sale. And Para- celfus himfelf vouchfafed diftindt Treatifes to Nypericori^Per- ficaria, Helleborus, and fome other particular Plants. Bafilius Valentinus (one of themoft Knowing and Candid Chymical Writers) publifht long fince an excellent Treatifeof Antimo¬ ny, inferib'd Currus Triumphalu Antimonii * but though ia his other hehathalfo taught us divers other things concerning it, yet he left fo much undifeovered in Antimony, that Angelus Sala was thereby emboldned to publifh his Anatomia Anti¬ monii. And Bamerus Poppius (if that be his true name) tfo- hannisTholdius, and the experienced Alexander van Suchten, thought fit to write entire Treatifes of that fame Mineral* by which if they feem to Eclipfe the diligence of Bafilius, at leaft they bore witnefs to his Judgement: for modeftly invi¬ ting his Readers to make further enquiries into the Nature and Preparations of that abftrufe Mineral, He gives this account of his leaving many things unmention'd, That the fhortnefs of Life makes it impofsible for one man throughly tc learn Anti¬ mony, in which every day fomething of new is dtfeovered. Ana I remember, that having lately given a Chymift, upon his requeft, fome Diredtioos for drawing, not an imaginary Mer- b, „ .~ - cusy