Memoirs and Proceedings of the Manchester Literary & Philosophical Society, Volume 18Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society., 1856 |
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... silver , copper , blood , bones , flesh fire , and earth , consist of infinitely small portions substances . + To effect this he adds , that everyth found in everything , because , as the animal grows food , the parts of the animal must ...
... silver , copper , blood , bones , flesh fire , and earth , consist of infinitely small portions substances . + To effect this he adds , that everyth found in everything , because , as the animal grows food , the parts of the animal must ...
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... silver , for we have felt both with our hand , when , as we held cups straight in the hand , water was poured into them from above , so that as far as these instances go there is nothing solid in nature . But because , however , right ...
... silver , for we have felt both with our hand , when , as we held cups straight in the hand , water was poured into them from above , so that as far as these instances go there is nothing solid in nature . But because , however , right ...
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... silver - water ( mercury ) , the male - female principle always escaping , con- stant in its properties , the divine water unknown to the world , the nature of which is inexplicable . For it is not a metal , nor is it water ; it is ...
... silver - water ( mercury ) , the male - female principle always escaping , con- stant in its properties , the divine water unknown to the world , the nature of which is inexplicable . For it is not a metal , nor is it water ; it is ...
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... silver , and increases their native tincture or colour ; for it changes their bodies * The Lives of the adepts in Alchemystical Philosophy , with a Critical Catalogue of the Books in this Science , and a Selection of the most celebrated ...
... silver , and increases their native tincture or colour ; for it changes their bodies * The Lives of the adepts in Alchemystical Philosophy , with a Critical Catalogue of the Books in this Science , and a Selection of the most celebrated ...
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... silver into prima materia or first matter . " * That the chief aim was this originally metaphysical id matter , we see also as late as 1691 , in the Second Aph of " Baron Urbiger , " whose more modern style has helped to a more ...
... silver into prima materia or first matter . " * That the chief aim was this originally metaphysical id matter , we see also as late as 1691 , in the Second Aph of " Baron Urbiger , " whose more modern style has helped to a more ...
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Page 125 - All these things being considered, it seems probable to me that God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties and in such proportion to space as most conduced to the end for which he formed them...
Page 125 - ... that God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties and in such proportion to space as most conduced to the end for which he formed them; and that these primitive particles being solids are incomparably harder than any porous bodies compounded of them, even so very hard as never to wear or break in pieces, no ordinary power being able to divide what God himself made one in the first creation.
Page 126 - While the Particles continue entire, they may compose Bodies of one and the same Nature and Texture in all Ages: But should they wear away, or break in pieces, the Nature of Things depending on them, would be changed.
Page 304 - Morley. — A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE of the HISTORICAL MANUSCRIPTS in the ARABIC and PERSIAN LANGUAGES preserved in the Library of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland.
Page 233 - When any body exists in the elastic state, its ultimate particles are separated from each other to a much greater distance than in any other state; each particle occupies the centre of a comparatively large sphere, and supports its dignity by keeping all the rest, which by their gravity, or otherwise, are disposed to encroach upon it, at a respectful distance.
Page 265 - for the development of the chemical theory of definite proportions, usually called the Atomic Theory, and for his various other labours and discoveries in physical and chemical science.
Page 44 - These facts clearly point out the theory of the process : the elements of oxygen may combine with a certain portion of nitrous gas, or with twice that portion, but with no intermediate quantity.
Page 49 - I have lately been prosecuting this enquiry with remarkable success. The principle cannot be entered upon in this paper ; but I shall just subjoin the results, as far as they appear to be ascertained by my experiments. ** TABLE of the relative weights of the ultimate particles of gaseous and other bodies.
Page 49 - An enquiry into the relative weights of the ultimate particles of bodies is a subject, as far as I know, entirely new : I have lately been prosecuting this enquiry with remarkable success.
Page 96 - There is a strong propensity which dances through every atom, and attracts the minutest particle to some peculiar object ; search this universe from its base to its summit, from fire to air, from water to earth, from all below the moon to all above the celestial spheres, and thou wilt not find a corpuscle destitute of that natural attractibility...