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 14
... himself acknowledgeth , it is not eafy even for the skilful to diftinguish the trees by their leaves , and know their fexes and kinds : and that difficulty is fince much encreased , by the dif- covery of many new fpecies of that ...
... himself acknowledgeth , it is not eafy even for the skilful to diftinguish the trees by their leaves , and know their fexes and kinds : and that difficulty is fince much encreased , by the dif- covery of many new fpecies of that ...
Page 24
... himself , and other chemists before him , have given methods for making folutions of myrrh , yet it is by means of alcohol which extracts only the inflammable parts . And it doth not feem that any folution of myrrh is impregnated with ...
... himself , and other chemists before him , have given methods for making folutions of myrrh , yet it is by means of alcohol which extracts only the inflammable parts . And it doth not feem that any folution of myrrh is impregnated with ...
Page 90
... himself in his Tim¿us defcribing gold , to be a denfe fluid with a thining yellow light , which well fuits a compofition of light and mercury . 195. Fire or light mixeth with all bodies ( a ) , even with water ; witness the flashing ...
... himself in his Tim¿us defcribing gold , to be a denfe fluid with a thining yellow light , which well fuits a compofition of light and mercury . 195. Fire or light mixeth with all bodies ( a ) , even with water ; witness the flashing ...
Page 95
... himself undertakes to prove , that light is incorporeal , by feveral arguments : Be cause it enlightens , and fills a great space , in an inftant , and without oppofition : Becaufe feveral lights meet without refifting each other ...
... himself undertakes to prove , that light is incorporeal , by feveral arguments : Be cause it enlightens , and fills a great space , in an inftant , and without oppofition : Becaufe feveral lights meet without refifting each other ...
Page 104
... himself infinuates to have been the opinion even of thofe ancients who took vacuum , atoms , and the gravity of atoms for the principles of their philofophy , tacitly attri- buting buting ( as he well obferves ) gravity to fome ( 104 )
... himself infinuates to have been the opinion even of thofe ancients who took vacuum , atoms , and the gravity of atoms for the principles of their philofophy , tacitly attri- buting buting ( as he well obferves ) gravity to fome ( 104 )
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