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 20
... repelling powers of objects , even fo the specific qualities of the elaborate juices of plants , feem to be virtually or eminently contain- ed in the folar light , and are actually exhibited upon the feparation of the rays , by the ...
... repelling powers of objects , even fo the specific qualities of the elaborate juices of plants , feem to be virtually or eminently contain- ed in the folar light , and are actually exhibited upon the feparation of the rays , by the ...
Page 67
... repelling , vibrating . Hence divers fermentations , and all the variety of meteors , tempefts , and concuffions both of earth and firmament . Nor is the microcofm lefs affected thereby . Being pent up in the vifcera , veffels , and ...
... repelling , vibrating . Hence divers fermentations , and all the variety of meteors , tempefts , and concuffions both of earth and firmament . Nor is the microcofm lefs affected thereby . Being pent up in the vifcera , veffels , and ...
Page 89
... repelling powers in the ftrain- ers , ducts , and pores of thofe bodies , doth . form feveral diftinct kinds of fulphur , all which , be- fore fuch feparation , were loft and blended toge- ther , in one common mafs of light or fire feem ...
... repelling powers in the ftrain- ers , ducts , and pores of thofe bodies , doth . form feveral diftinct kinds of fulphur , all which , be- fore fuch feparation , were loft and blended toge- ther , in one common mafs of light or fire feem ...
Page 110
... repelling forces . But the particu- lar laws of attraction and repulfion are various . Nor are we concerned at all about the forces , nei- ther can we know or measure them otherwise than by their effects , that is to fay , the motions ...
... repelling forces . But the particu- lar laws of attraction and repulfion are various . Nor are we concerned at all about the forces , nei- ther can we know or measure them otherwise than by their effects , that is to fay , the motions ...
Page 111
... repelling force or faculty in the fly's feet . But this is obfcure , though the phænomenon be plain . 236. It is not improbable , and feems not un- fupported by experiments , that , as in algebra , where pofitive quantities ceafe there ...
... repelling force or faculty in the fly's feet . But this is obfcure , though the phænomenon be plain . 236. It is not improbable , and feems not un- fupported by experiments , that , as in algebra , where pofitive quantities ceafe there ...
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