The origine of formes and qualities, (according to the corpuscular philosophy,) illustrated by considerations and experiments, (written formerly by way of notes upon an Essay about nitre) / By the Honourable Robert Boyle.

  • Robert Boyle
Date:
1666
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Credit: The origine of formes and qualities, (according to the corpuscular philosophy,) illustrated by considerations and experiments, (written formerly by way of notes upon an Essay about nitre) / By the Honourable Robert Boyle. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ES SS eke (ee (42) onely flender, ftiff, and fharp; and by thofe qualities happens to make a So- Touching, upon which by reafon of the Fabrick of the Body, and the inti- mate Union of the Soul with it, there a- rifeth chat-croublefome kind of Percep- tion;which we call Pain,and I fhall anon more particularly fhew, how muchthat | depends upon the peculiar fabrick of. the Body. VI. ‘Buthere I forefeea Difficulty, which being perhaps the chiefeft, chat we shal] meet with againft che Corpuf- cular Hypothefis , ic will deferve to be, before we proceed any farther, taken notice of. | And it is this, that, whereas we explicate Colours; Odours, andthe like fenfible Qual ities by a relation to our Senfes, it feems evident, that they have an ab/olute Being irrelative tos; | for, Snow (for inftance) wonid be whire, | though there were no Man or any other. Animal, | |
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