Siris: A Chain of Philosophical Reflexions and Inquiries Concerning the Virtues of Tar Water, and Divers Other Subjects Connected Together and Arising One from AnotherDublin printed, London re-printed, for W. Innys, C. Hitch, and C. Davis, 1744 - 174 pages |
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Page 18
... elements of air , earth , and water , and on all forts of mixed -bodies , animal , vegetable and foffil , is supposed to perform all forts of chemical operations . Whence it should follow , that the air contains all forts of chemic ...
... elements of air , earth , and water , and on all forts of mixed -bodies , animal , vegetable and foffil , is supposed to perform all forts of chemical operations . Whence it should follow , that the air contains all forts of chemic ...
Page 63
... element , is difcer- nible alfo in many parts of the earth , particularly in foffils , fuch as fulphur , vitriol , and alum ; it was already obferved from Homberg , that this acid is never found pure , but hath always fulphur joined ...
... element , is difcer- nible alfo in many parts of the earth , particularly in foffils , fuch as fulphur , vitriol , and alum ; it was already obferved from Homberg , that this acid is never found pure , but hath always fulphur joined ...
Page 64
... element operate without ceafing , on all things that have life , whether animal or vegetable , keeping their fibres , veffels , and fluids in a motion always changing ; as heat , cold , moisture , drynefs , and other caufes alter the ...
... element operate without ceafing , on all things that have life , whether animal or vegetable , keeping their fibres , veffels , and fluids in a motion always changing ; as heat , cold , moisture , drynefs , and other caufes alter the ...
Page 68
... element , but a mass or mixture of things the most heterogeneous and even opposite to each other ( m ) , which ... elements , each into other , hath been anciently held . In Plutarch we find in was the opinion of Heraclitus , that the ...
... element , but a mass or mixture of things the most heterogeneous and even opposite to each other ( m ) , which ... elements , each into other , hath been anciently held . In Plutarch we find in was the opinion of Heraclitus , that the ...
Page 69
... element of air . It follows alfo , that on the high- eft mountains air fhould be more rare than in pro- portion to the vulgar rule , of the spaces being re- ciprocally as the preffures ; and fo in fact it is faid to have been found , by ...
... element of air . It follows alfo , that on the high- eft mountains air fhould be more rare than in pro- portion to the vulgar rule , of the spaces being re- ciprocally as the preffures ; and fo in fact it is faid to have been found , by ...
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