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 69
Together they compose a medium , whose elasticity is less than that of pure
¿ther , fire , or spirit , in proportion to the quantity of salts , vapours , and
heterogeneous particles contained therein . Hence it follows , that there is no
such thing as a ...
Together they compose a medium , whose elasticity is less than that of pure
¿ther , fire , or spirit , in proportion to the quantity of salts , vapours , and
heterogeneous particles contained therein . Hence it follows , that there is no
such thing as a ...
Page 77
If we may credit Plutarch , Empedocles thought ¿ther or heat to be Jupiter .
¯ther by the ancient philosophers was used to signify promila cuously
fomerimes fire and sometimes air . For they diftinguished two forts of air . Plato in
the Tim¿us ...
If we may credit Plutarch , Empedocles thought ¿ther or heat to be Jupiter .
¯ther by the ancient philosophers was used to signify promila cuously
fomerimes fire and sometimes air . For they diftinguished two forts of air . Plato in
the Tim¿us ...
Page 78
It is not therefore to be wondered that Aristotle thought , the heat of a living body
to be somewhat divine and celestial , derived from that pure ¿ther to which he
supposed the incorporeal deity ( xwgasov eldos ) to be immediately united , or on
...
It is not therefore to be wondered that Aristotle thought , the heat of a living body
to be somewhat divine and celestial , derived from that pure ¿ther to which he
supposed the incorporeal deity ( xwgasov eldos ) to be immediately united , or on
...
Page 93
The pure invisible fire or ¿ther doth per . meate all bodies , even the hardest and
most solid , as the diamond . This alone , therefore , cannot , as some learned
men have supposed , be the cause of muscular motion , by a mere impulse of the
...
The pure invisible fire or ¿ther doth per . meate all bodies , even the hardest and
most solid , as the diamond . This alone , therefore , cannot , as some learned
men have supposed , be the cause of muscular motion , by a mere impulse of the
...
Page 94
What this may be , whether fome certain proportion , or some peculiar parts of
¿ther , is not easy to say . But thus much feems plain , that whatever is ascribed
to acid may be also ascribed to fire or ¿ther . The particles of ¿ther fly afunder
with ...
What this may be , whether fome certain proportion , or some peculiar parts of
¿ther , is not easy to say . But thus much feems plain , that whatever is ascribed
to acid may be also ascribed to fire or ¿ther . The particles of ¿ther fly afunder
with ...
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| Title | Siris: A Chain of Philosophical Reflexions and Inquiries Concerning the Virtues of Tar Water, and Divers Other Subjects Connected Together and Arising One from Another Eighteenth Century English short title catalogue Eighteenth Century collection 8128. number of Goldsmiths'-Kress library of economic literature Siris: a Chain of Philosophical Reflexions and Inquiries Concerning the Virtues of Tar Water,: And Divers Other Subjects Connected Together and Arising One from Another, George Berkeley |
| Author | George Berkeley |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | Dublin printed, London re-printed, for W. Innys, C. Hitch, and C. Davis, 1744 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 27 mai 2009 |
| Length | 174 pages |
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