An essay of the great effects of even languid and unheeded motion. Whereunto is annexed an experimental discourse of some little observed causes of the insalubrity and salubrity of the air and its effects / [Robert Boyle].

  • Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691
Date:
1690
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Credit: An essay of the great effects of even languid and unheeded motion. Whereunto is annexed an experimental discourse of some little observed causes of the insalubrity and salubrity of the air and its effects / [Robert Boyle]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tnanifeft ftriking of one body againft another., where the bulk, See. of the [ Agent, together with its Celerity; have the chief Intereft $ there may not be divers effe&s, wont to be at¬ tributed to Occult Qualities, that yet are really produced by faitit or un~ heeded Local motions of bodies a- gainft one another, and that often¬ times at a diftance. I But,before I enter upon particulars,- : this I muft premife in general, (which 1 have elfewhere hadoccafion to note to other purpofes,) that we are not to look upon the bodies we are con- [ferfaot as fomany Lumps of Matter, that differ ooely in bulk and .ape, or that att upon one another merely by their own di ftin& and par¬ ticular powers 5 but rather as bodies of peculiar and differing internal Tex¬ tures, as well as external Figures; off the account of which ftruffures.,many ^ mU^ considered as a kind ‘Engines, that are both foframed and fo placed among other bodies, loat lometimes Agents, otherwife in-