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 102
... corporeal , being capable of motion , rarefaction , gravity , and other qualities of bodies . It is fit to diftinguish thefe things , in order to avoid am- biguity concerning the nature of fire . 221. Sir Ifaac Newton in his Optics ...
... corporeal , being capable of motion , rarefaction , gravity , and other qualities of bodies . It is fit to diftinguish thefe things , in order to avoid am- biguity concerning the nature of fire . 221. Sir Ifaac Newton in his Optics ...
Page 115
... corporeal caufes , but a divine neceffity , as he himself exprefly calls it . And what is this but an over - ruling intelligent power that dif pofeth of all things ? 243. Attraction cannot produce , and in that sense account for the ...
... corporeal caufes , but a divine neceffity , as he himself exprefly calls it . And what is this but an over - ruling intelligent power that dif pofeth of all things ? 243. Attraction cannot produce , and in that sense account for the ...
Page 117
... corporeal caufes . 246. The Cartefians attempted to explain it by the nifus of a fubtil element , receding from the center of its motion , and impelling groffer bodies towards it . Sir Ifaac Newton in his later thoughts feems ( as was ...
... corporeal caufes . 246. The Cartefians attempted to explain it by the nifus of a fubtil element , receding from the center of its motion , and impelling groffer bodies towards it . Sir Ifaac Newton in his later thoughts feems ( as was ...
Page 118
... corporeal , nor belongs to any corporeal thing ( f ) ; nor yet to be discovered by experiments or mathematical reafonings , which reach no farther than difcernible effects , and motions in things paffive and moved . 248. Vis or force is ...
... corporeal , nor belongs to any corporeal thing ( f ) ; nor yet to be discovered by experiments or mathematical reafonings , which reach no farther than difcernible effects , and motions in things paffive and moved . 248. Vis or force is ...
Page 119
... corporeal forces , which make the parti- cles of bodies to cohere . Nor is it the business of experimental philofophers to find them out . 249. The mechanical philofopher , as hath been already obferved , inquires properly concerning ...
... corporeal forces , which make the parti- cles of bodies to cohere . Nor is it the business of experimental philofophers to find them out . 249. The mechanical philofopher , as hath been already obferved , inquires properly concerning ...
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