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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Mr. Boyle and other later chemists are agreed , that fixed falts are much the same
in all bodies . But it is well known that volatile falts do greatly differ , and the
easier they are separated from the subject , the more do they poffefs of it's
specific ...
Mr. Boyle and other later chemists are agreed , that fixed falts are much the same
in all bodies . But it is well known that volatile falts do greatly differ , and the
easier they are separated from the subject , the more do they poffefs of it's
specific ...
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... whence it is only freed and let lofe ( not made ) by burning . If we may believe
Pliny , the first running or tar was called cedrium , and was of such efficacy to
preserve from putrefaction , that in Egypt they embalmed dead bodies with it .
And to ...
... whence it is only freed and let lofe ( not made ) by burning . If we may believe
Pliny , the first running or tar was called cedrium , and was of such efficacy to
preserve from putrefaction , that in Egypt they embalmed dead bodies with it .
And to ...
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Agreeably to the old observation of the Peo . ripatetics , that heat gathereth
homogeneous things and disperseth such as are heterogeneous , we find
chemistry is fitted for the analysis of bodies . But che chemistry of nature is much
more ...
Agreeably to the old observation of the Peo . ripatetics , that heat gathereth
homogeneous things and disperseth such as are heterogeneous , we find
chemistry is fitted for the analysis of bodies . But che chemistry of nature is much
more ...
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32. A body , therefore , either animal or vegetable , may be considered as an
organised system of tubes and vessels , containing several sorts of Auids . And
as Auids are moved through the vessels of animal bodies , by the systole and
diastole ...
32. A body , therefore , either animal or vegetable , may be considered as an
organised system of tubes and vessels , containing several sorts of Auids . And
as Auids are moved through the vessels of animal bodies , by the systole and
diastole ...
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light ; which at the fame time that it heats , doth wonderfully rarefy and raise the
fap ; till it perspires and forms an atmosphere , like the effluvia of animal bodies .
And though the leaves are suppored to perform principally the office of lungs ...
light ; which at the fame time that it heats , doth wonderfully rarefy and raise the
fap ; till it perspires and forms an atmosphere , like the effluvia of animal bodies .
And though the leaves are suppored to perform principally the office of lungs ...
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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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