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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    [ 53 ] fiances, which feem to be of the fame Nature, there happens to be fo great a Variety and Difference of Elevation. The caufe of this Elevation and Afcent in the Particles of Bodies is to be afcrib’d to the Fire, not only on the account of Impulfe, but of another Property the Fire has, namely, to infinuate it felf into all the Interdices of thefe Bodies, and thereby break the Coheflon of their Parts, fo that they are at lad di¬ vided into very fmall Parts, if not into the dualled, which Art can re¬ duce them into. Particles thus fe- parated and divided, lofe much of their Gravity, as we took notice of before. For the Gravity of the fame Particle decreafes in the fame Pro¬ portion, as the Cube of its Diameter is leden’d. Let us therefore take a Body, whofe Diameter is 12, and its Gravity 12. If then its Diameter be
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