Chymical lectures: in which almost all the operations of chymistry are reduced to their true principles, and the laws of nature. Read in the Museum at Oxford, 1704 / By John Freind. Englished by J.M. To which is added, an appendix, containing the account given of this book in the Lipsick Acts, together with the author's remarks thereon.

  • John Freind
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1737
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Credit: Chymical lectures: in which almost all the operations of chymistry are reduced to their true principles, and the laws of nature. Read in the Museum at Oxford, 1704 / By John Freind. Englished by J.M. To which is added, an appendix, containing the account given of this book in the Lipsick Acts, together with the author's remarks thereon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ *94- ] place in the very Explication, which they pretend to give of Things, without admitting it ; and con- defcend to make ufe of this very Word, which they think founds fo Elegantly, to palliate their Igno¬ rance. For they tell us of a Fluid Sphere, which attraSls, repels, and difpofes to a convenient Situation. Since there is fo little Foundation lor this Hypothecs, 'tis pity it fhou’d have no more Confiftence. ’Tis an eafy matter, at this rate, to lolve all the Phenomena of Nature; for a Subtil Fluid and a Magneti- cal Sphere may do Wonders, and ferve to explain even Contradictions. And this extremely fine Matter and Magnetifm, without any clear Ac¬ count of their manner of ACting, feems to be as great a Refuge for Ignorance, as any Occult Quality that ever was yet admitted into Philofophy. After all, are not fuch
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