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In the form of a dialogue, the Sceptical Chymist presented Boyle's hypothesis that matter consisted of corpuscles and clusters of corpuscles in motion and that every phenomenon was the result of collisions of particles in motion.
Jan 5, 2011 · The Sceptical Chymist was one facet of Boyle's larger project to elevate the status of chemistry, to free it from servitude to medical and commercial endeavours, and to use it for exploring and...
- Lawrence Principe
- 2011
Dec 4, 2023 · The Sceptical Chymist or Chymico-Physical Doubts & Paradoxes is the title of Robert Boyle's masterpiece of scientific literature, published in London in 1661. In the form of a dialogue, the Sceptical Chymist presented Boyle's hypothesis that matter consisted of atoms and clusters of atoms in motion and that every phenomenon was the result of ...
such as the particulate nature of matter, the mechanical view of the universe and the concept of the elements. by discussing how seventeenth-century chemist robert boyle was influenced by his
- Lawrence Principe
- 2011
Among his most influential writings were The Sceptical Chymist (1661), which assailed the then-current Aristotelian and especially Paracelsian notions about the composition of matter and methods of chemical analysis, and the Origine of Formes and Qualities (1666), which used chemical phenomena to support the corpuscularian hypothesis.
Written in the form of a dialogue, Boyle presented a new concept of matter that severley criticized the old Aristotelian theories. He believed that every phenomenon is due to collisions of atoms or groups of atoms. Read More. Creator: Boyle, Robert. Published: Printed by J. Cadwell for J. Crooke, 1661.
If, I say, the Chymists (continues Eleutherius) be so Liberall as to make you these three Concessions, I hope you will, on your part, be so civil and Equitable as to grant them these three other propositions, namely; First, that divers Mineral Bodies, and therefore probably all the rest, may be resolv’d into a
