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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    [8] or that all the Parts cf Matter are drawn towards one another. 5. ‘This Force is diffus'd but a very little way \ fo that when Bodies come to be at fome dijlance, it almojl vanifhes. Nor does it come to be jenffbhi unlefs when the Particles of Matter draw nearer one to the other \ But at the point of ContaEl it is JlrongeJl. And therefore the AttraSlive Force decreafes in a Ratio of the increafing Dijlancesy which is more than Duplicate-. 6. This Force is different according to the various Texture and Denfity of the Particles: But in Gravity 'tis quite otherwife-yfor that always re¬ mains the fame, however the Tex-? ture of Bodies is chang'd. 7. But the AttraSlive Force is great¬ er in one fide of the fame Particle, than in another. 8. Particles, by howjnuch minuter they are-) with fo much the greater
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