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, 5. köideDublin printed, London re-printed, for W. Innys, and C. Hitch, in Pater-noster-row; and C. Davis in Holbourn., 1744 - 174 pages |
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Page 35
The more effectually to remove this prejudice, let it be farther considered, that, as
on the one hand, opposite causes do sometimes produce the fame effect, for
instance, heat by rarefaction and cold by condensation do both increase the air's
...
The more effectually to remove this prejudice, let it be farther considered, that, as
on the one hand, opposite causes do sometimes produce the fame effect, for
instance, heat by rarefaction and cold by condensation do both increase the air's
...
Page 77
If we may credit Plutarch, Empedocles thought ¿ther or heat to be Jupiter. ¯ther
by the ancient philosophers was used to signify promiscuously sometimes fire
and sometimes air. For they distinguished two sorts 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 promiscuously sometimes fire
and sometimes air. For they distinguished two sorts of air. Plato in the; Tim¿us ...
Page 80
This is what govern&all things and is never in repose. And (he fame author, in his
tract, De carnibus, after a serious preface setting forth that he is about to declare
his own opinion, expresseth it in these terms: ♢« That which we call heat &«fj«» ...
This is what govern&all things and is never in repose. And (he fame author, in his
tract, De carnibus, after a serious preface setting forth that he is about to declare
his own opinion, expresseth it in these terms: ♢« That which we call heat &«fj«» ...
Page 102
Force or power, strictly speaking, is Atf agent alone who imparts an equivocal
force to the invisible elementary fire, or animal spirit (a) of the world, and the to
the ignited body or visible flame, which produceth the sense of light and heat. In
this ...
Force or power, strictly speaking, is Atf agent alone who imparts an equivocal
force to the invisible elementary fire, or animal spirit (a) of the world, and the to
the ignited body or visible flame, which produceth the sense of light and heat. In
this ...
Page 153
And in the Tim¿us Plato teacheth, that the figure and motion of the particles of
fire dividing the parts of our bodies produce thac painsul senfation wecall heat.
And Plotinus, in the sixth book of his second Ennead, observes that heat and
other ...
And in the Tim¿us Plato teacheth, that the figure and motion of the particles of
fire dividing the parts of our bodies produce thac painsul senfation wecall heat.
And Plotinus, in the sixth book of his second Ennead, observes that heat and
other ...
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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, 5. köide 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 |
| Contributors | William Innys, Charles Hitch, Charles Davis |
| Publisher | Dublin printed, London re-printed, for W. Innys, and C. Hitch, in Pater-noster-row; and C. Davis in Holbourn., 1744 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 27 mai 2009 |
| Length | 174 pages |
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