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 |
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According to Pliny , liquid pitch ( as he calls it ) or tar was obtained by setting fire
to billets of old fat pines or firs . The first running was tar , the latter or thicker
running was pitch . Theo . phraftus is more particular : he tells us the
Macedonians ...
According to Pliny , liquid pitch ( as he calls it ) or tar was obtained by setting fire
to billets of old fat pines or firs . The first running was tar , the latter or thicker
running was pitch . Theo . phraftus is more particular : he tells us the
Macedonians ...
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This was probably the spruce fir ; for the picea , according to Pliny , yields much
relin , loves a cold and mountainous situation , and is diftinguished , tonsili
facilitate , by it ' s fitness to be fhorn , which agrees with the spruce fir , whereof I
have ...
This was probably the spruce fir ; for the picea , according to Pliny , yields much
relin , loves a cold and mountainous situation , and is diftinguished , tonsili
facilitate , by it ' s fitness to be fhorn , which agrees with the spruce fir , whereof I
have ...
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This ¿cher or purer medium , seems to have been the air or principle , from
which all things according to Anaximenes derived their birth , and into which they
were back again resolved at their death . Hippocrates , in his treatise De di¿ta ...
This ¿cher or purer medium , seems to have been the air or principle , from
which all things according to Anaximenes derived their birth , and into which they
were back again resolved at their death . Hippocrates , in his treatise De di¿ta ...
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Bodies are moved to or from each other , and this is performed according to
different laws . The natural or mechanic philosopher endeavours to discover
those laws by experiment and reasoning . But what is said of forces residing in
bodies ...
Bodies are moved to or from each other , and this is performed according to
different laws . The natural or mechanic philosopher endeavours to discover
those laws by experiment and reasoning . But what is said of forces residing in
bodies ...
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In all this we know or understand no more , than that bodies are moved according
to a certain order , and that they do not move themselves . 237 . So likewise , how
to explain all those various motions and effects , by the density and elasticity ...
In all this we know or understand no more , than that bodies are moved according
to a certain order , and that they do not move themselves . 237 . So likewise , how
to explain all those various motions and effects , by the density and elasticity ...
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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 |
| Author | George Berkeley |
| Edition | 2, reprint |
| Publisher | Reprinted for W. Innys, 1744 |
| Original from | Princeton University |
| Digitized | 10 okt. 2008 |
| Length | 174 pages |
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