The Philosophical Works of the Honourable Robert Boyle Esq: Abridged, Methodized, and Disposed Under the General Heads of Physics, Statics, Pneumatics, Natural History, Chymistry, and Medicine, 第 3 卷

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W. and J. Innys, 1725
 

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第 82 頁 - Air retain'd either All, or at least far the greatest part of its Elasticity, which I take to be its most genuine and distinguishing property. 'And this...
第 213 頁 - Experiments compared with the great quantity of Sulphur with which the Earth abounds, and the warmth of the interior Parts of the Earth, and hot Springs, and burning Mountains, and with Damps, mineral...
第 170 頁 - I caused the pneumatic engine to be prepared in a room without fire, (that the experiment might be tried in a greater degree of darkness...
第 435 頁 - Chymyst (1601), commented upon these theories without enthusiasm : / look upon amity and enmity as affections of intelligent beings, and I have not yet found it explained by any, how those appetites can be placed in bodies inanimate and devoid of knowledge or of so much as sense.
第 213 頁 - Lightning and Thunder, and fiery Meteors. For the Air abounds with acid Vapours fit to promote Fermentations, as appears by the rusting of Iron and Copper in it, the kindling of Fire by blowing, and the beating of the Heart by means of Respiration.
第 433 頁 - The Particles of Acids are of a Size grosser than those of Water, and therefore less volatile; but much smaller than those of Earth, and therefore much less fix'd than they. They are endued with a great Attractive Force; in which Force their Activity consists; and thereby also they affect and stimulate the Organ of Taste, and dissolve such Bodies as they can come at. They are of a middle Nature, between Water and Terrestrial Bodies, and attract the Particles of both.
第 171 頁 - ... &c. was luminous. For, having several nights sent purposely into the larder, to observe, whether any veal, since brought thither, or any other meat, did afford any light, a negative answer was always brought me back...
第 246 頁 - ... winds at the bottom of the sea, where it was of any considerable depth? answered me to this purpose, the wind being stiff, so that the waves were manifestly six or seven feet high above the surface of the water, he found no sign of it at 15 fathom deep; but if the blasts continued long, then it moved the mud at the bottom, and made the water thick and dark.
第 17 頁 - ... or dry exhalations, ascend from the earth, water, minerals, vegetables, animals, etc. ; in a word, whatever substances are elevated by the celestial or subterraneal heat, and thence diffused into the atmosphere. The second may be yet more...
第 169 頁 - I have divers times observed in the tails of glow-worms. 7. But notwithstanding the vividness of this light, I could not, by the touch, discern the least degree of heat in the parts, whence it proceeded; and having put some marks on one or two of the more shining places, that I might know them again, when brought to the light, I...