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 praemis'd part of another discourse relating to the same subject

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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 praemis'd part of another discourse relating to the same subject

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Caption title on p. 1: Physiological considerations touching the experiments wont to be employed to evince either the IV peripatetick elements, or the III chymical principles of mixt bodies.

Second title leaf inserted after leaf D1 (p. 34): The sceptical chymist: or Chymico-physical doubts & paradoxes, touching the experiments whereby vulgar spagyrists are wont to endeavour to evince their salt, sulphur and mercury, to be the true principles of things ...

Title leaf printed in red and black.

Numerous errors in paging.

Errata on p. 441-442.

Signatures: pi1 A-Z8 2A-2E8 2F2 [par.]4.

The final leaf is blank.

Dibner Library. Heralds of science (1980 ed.), 39

ESTC (online) 37449

Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), B4021

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SCDIRB copy 39088002863561 has bookplate: Herald of Science no. 39, Burndy Library ... gift of Bern Dibner.

SCDIRB copy has an old blind-ruled full leather binding, re-backed, with later gilt-lettered red leather spine label. Housed in a later box of brown cloth with leather spine, raised bands, and gilt-tooled spine with red spine label. Box is signed: bound by Krumin, Boston.

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Sceptical chymist, Chymico-physical doubts & paradoxes, Boyle's Sceptical chemist, Physiological considerations touching the experiments wont to be employed to evince either the IV peripatetick elements.

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[18], 34, [2], 35-442 p. ;
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I Perceive that divers of my Friends have thought it very strange to hear me speak so irresolvedly, as I have been wont to do, concerning those things which some take to be the Elements, and others to be the Principles of all mixt Bodies.
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