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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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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    it cannot well be pretended, or at leaft | not well prov'd, that any Subftantial Forms are the Caufes of che Effects T have recited. For inmoft of the (above 7 ,. mentjon’d) cafes, befides thac, in the # , Bodies we imploy’d, the Seminal Ver- ]} ,., tues, if they had any before, may be fuppof'd to have been deftroy’d by the fire, they were fach, as thofe Targue}] with would account to be Factitious | Bodies, artificially produc’d by Chy-} micai Operations. And tis not mores manifeft,that,in the produétion of thefe} Effects, there intervenes a Local Mo-9 tion, and change of Texture by thefe}) Operations, then tis inevident and pre- i carious, that they are the Effects of fuchy things, asthe Schools fancy Subftanti-} al Forms to be: fince tis, in thele new) Experiments, by the Addition of fomey new particles of Matter, or the Recefsay ot Expulfion of fome praexiftent ones or, which is the moft frequent way, by che Tranfpofition of Minute parts, yer | withoug
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