-
approaches more
closely to the
modern concept: I now mean by Elements, as
those Chymists that
speak plainest do by
their Principles,
certain Primitive and Simple...
- been
better understood, this
Doctrine has been
abundantly re****ed. The
Chymists make Spirit, Salt, Sulphur,
Water and
Earth to be
their five Elements,...
- (whether Three, Four or Five, or
fewer or more) of
Substances ... The
Chymists are wont to call the
Ingredients of mixt Bodies, Principles, as the Aristotelians...
- is kept
constant within a
closed system.
Among his works, The
Sceptical Chymist is seen as a
cornerstone book in the
field of chemistry. He was a devout...
- to
Robert Boyle's 1661 hypothesis, in his
famous treatise The
Sceptical Chymist, that
matter is
composed of
clusters of
particles and that
chemical change...
-
liquids from the wood of the box
shrub in:
Robert Boyle, The
Sceptical Chymist (London, England: J. Cadwell, 1661), pp. 192–195. A
report on methanol...
- interpretations. One such
version was
provided by
Robert Boyle in The
Sceptical Chymist,
which was
published in 1661 in the form of a
dialogue between five characters...
- that of Aristotle: This
Doctrine is very
different from the
whimseys of
Chymists ...
whose Hypotheses ...
often fram’d in one w****, are
perhaps thought...
- system.
Boyle is also
credited for his
landmark publication The
Sceptical Chymist in 1661,
which is seen as a
cornerstone book in the
field of chemistry...
- qualities:
Among which is
inserted a
discourse of the
imperfection of the
chymist's doctrine of qualities;
together with some
reflections upon the hypothesis...
