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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 particles in motion.
- 1661
- Robert Boyle
- J. Cadwell
- England
Oct 8, 2007 · About this eBook. 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.
- Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691
- QD: Science: Chemistry
- English
- Chemistry -- Early works to 1800
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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. Whereunto is præmis'd Part of another Discourse relating to the same Subject. Author: Robert Boyle
Jan 5, 2011 · The Sceptical Chymist. Robert Boyle. First published 1661. 9780554396620 | ISBN: 978-0-5543-9662-0. Online collection. It can be said of books, as Shakespeare said of people, that “some are born ...
- Lawrence Principe
- 2011
Other articles where The Sceptical Chymist is discussed: Robert Boyle: Scientific career: …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 ...
Robert Boyle, The Sceptical Chymist, 1661 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.
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 collisions of particles in motion.
