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  1. The Sceptical Chymist: or Chymico-Physical Doubts & Paradoxes is the title of a book by Robert Boyle, published in London in 1661. 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 ...

  2. Oct 8, 2007 · 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.

    • Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691
    • QD: Science: Chemistry
    • English
    • Chemistry -- Early works to 1800
  3. Jan 5, 2011 · Robert Boyle's The Sceptical Chymist (1661) falls into the last category. Widely celebrated as a landmark, it remains misrepresented, misunderstood and unread.

    • Lawrence Principe
    • 2011
  4. Oct 8, 2007 · 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.

  5. Jun 15, 2010 · The sceptical chymist by Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691; Muir, M. M. Pattison (Matthew Moncrieff Pattison), 1848-1931

  6. 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 ...

  7. 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.

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