The Sceptical Chymist by Robert Boyle
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"The Sceptical Chymist" by Robert Boyle is a scientific work published in 1661. Written as a dialogue between five characters in a garden, this groundbreaking book challenges ancient theories about matter's composition. Boyle proposes that matter consists of moving corpuscles and clusters, while rejecting both Aristotle's four elements and Paracelsus' three principles. Instead, he defines elements as "perfectly unmingled bodies," laying foundations that would help establish modern chemistry. The work's influence gradually
displaced centuries-old doctrines about the fundamental nature of matter. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691 |
|---|---|
| Title |
The Sceptical Chymist or Chymico-Physical Doubts & Paradoxes, Touching the Spagyrist's Principles Commonly call'd Hypostatical; As they are wont to be Propos'd and Defended by the Generality of Alchymists. Whereunto is præmis'd Part of another Discourse relating to the same Subject. |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sceptical_Chymist |
| Credits | E-text prepared by Robert Shimmin, Linda Cantoni, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 26.4 (College graduate level). Very difficult to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | QD: Science: Chemistry |
| Subject | Chemistry -- Early works to 1800 |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 22914 |
| Release Date | Oct 8, 2007 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 12529 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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