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
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1666
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    } 1 ) uF He i] ! H) thy i The Preface: | General may be deduced,(by wayes they leave | thofe to.gnelfe at that can,) from thofe foure | Qualities, they are pleas’d to cali the Firft; | they coufelfe,that the reft {pring from thofe | Forms of Bodies,whofe particular Natures, | the judicioufest of them acknowledge, they | cannot comprehend. © And Axiftotle him- Self not only doth (4s we {hall [ee anon ) | give ws of Qualitie in Generall, (which yet | feems far more eafily defineable, then many | @ Particular Quality,) no other then [uch a definition, as is as Obfcure,as the thing to be declared by it; but 1 Obferve mot without | fome wonder , that in his eight Books of | Phyficks where he profefedly treats of the | Generall A ffections of Naturall things, | he leaves out the Doctrine of Qualities, as | after him Magirus, and divers other Wrt- ters of the Peripatetick Phyfiologie have | done + which (by the way) I cannot but look | upon as an Omifion, fince Qualities doe | a well feem to belong to Naturall Bodtes Generally confider'd, a Place, Time, Moti- B2 gecount
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