Physiologia Epicuro-Gassendo-Charltoniana: or a fabrick of science natural, upon the hypothesis of atoms / Founded by Epicvrvs, repaired [by] Petrvs Gassendvs, augmented [by] Walter Charleton ... The first part.

  • Charleton, Walter, 1620-1707.
Date:
1654
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Credit: Physiologia Epicuro-Gassendo-Charltoniana: or a fabrick of science natural, upon the hypothesis of atoms / Founded by Epicvrvs, repaired [by] Petrvs Gassendvs, augmented [by] Walter Charleton ... The first part. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    mony of Ari^etle (in lib. de ortu ^ interifu) however He was pleafed^^ S.Metapbyf.cap.2^.) interpreting the Abdeiitane terms Dmocnm, to adnumerate •to , Figure, unto them, and thereupon inferr that Atoms are diffoent, jjpuo-^w, o gq-i , w , o gV‘ n <^icc- >7>i, c/ gipj I. e. Rhyfmo^ quod efl Figure. • mt Trope quod efi jltus' aut Diatbege^ quod ejl ordo : d>c(in Metaphyf.i. cap./^.) to exempfi- he this difference in Letters of the Alphabet-, fiying that A and N dif¬ fer in Figure^ A N,andN A, in order-, andZ N, in fituation. Which is the fame with what £?w^/r/V^ (2.reports to have been deli¬ vered by Epicurus. True it is, his Difciple Lucretius, exceeded him in th^e number of Events affignable to Atoms, in order to the emergency otall fenfible Qualities from theinj for he compofing this Diftich $ Interval^, Vif, Connexus, Pondera, Plaga, Concurfus, Motus, Ordo, Pofitura, Figurx, ’ confounds both Events and OonjunEfs together; wherein ’ He feems to tiave had more regard to the fmoothnefs of his Verfes then the Me¬ thodical tradliom ot his Subjed:. For, Motion, Concurfe, and Percuffion are the natural Confequents of Gravity: and Diflance and Connexion are vndnM m Pofttion^ and Wayes or Regions belong to Order, as may be exemplihed in the former Letters, which refpedive to their remote or Vi- cine Pofition, and their Change from the right to the left hand, exhibice to the lenie various faces or apparences. That thofe two Conjunds, Magnitude and Motion^ are necefTarily to be aflociat^ed to Order and Pofition -, is evident from hence, that ifit be enqui¬ red, why there is in Light fo greatafubtilityof parts, asthatinaninftant It penetrates the thickeft Glafs -, but fo little in Water, as that it is termi¬ nated in the fuperfice thereof: what more verifimilous feafon canbcal- ledged to explain the Caufe of that difference in two fluid bodies, then this, that the Component Particles of Light are more minute, or have lefs of Magnitude, then thofe of Water' And if it be enquired, why the Aer, when agitated by the wind,or a fan, appears Colder, then when quiets whatfolution can be more fatisfaftory, then this, that by reafon of its mo¬ tion It doth more deeply penetrate the pores of the skin, and fo more vi- gorouflyaffeft the fenfe ' However, if we confine our alTumptioh only to t ele three Hea^, ordtr^ and PefiHcn-, we fliall yet be able without much difficulty, to make it out, how from them, either fin»le or ffiyerfly commixt an infinite Multiphcity of Qualities maybe creamd, as may be nroft appofitely explained by the Analogy which Letters hold to £/rwMtrof murng, and from themarife Sentences, Orations, Books 1 foproportio- natelyare Atoms the Elements of.rte^r,andfrom them arife by gradation moft exile Moleculie, or the Seminaries of Concretions, then greater and of^M^ffit^” fucceffively, until we arrive at the higheft round in the fcale Butweare reftraiMdto aninfiftence only Upon oura Heads affiimed AsLettei^of divers Figures, U,G,A,E,0,bvhenprierLted to the eye y 5 1 erent fpecies, or alpeAs and when pronounced, affedl the Ear with as many diftiiiA founds: exaAly fo do Atoms, refpeAively to the va- S 2 j-iejy Art. The neceflicy of alTuming the Magnitude and Motion of Atoms, toge¬ ther with theif Order and Si* tuation, as to their produ- ftion of Quai- lities, cvitJted by a double inflancct Art. 6. The Figure, Order and PofJ. tionif Parts irt Concretions, alone fuffici- ^nt to the CaulTation of an indefinite variety ofQtia- lities,from the analogy oi Lc.rai.