01965cam a22003133u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003704000110007804100170008905000070010610000300011324502920014326400510043530000470048633600260053333700260055933800360058550000880062150000310070950801170074052006520085753400450150965300370155485600430159199900170163422914UtSlPG20260610133527.0mcr n260607r2007||||utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aQD1 aBoyle, Robert,d1627-169114aThe Sceptical Chymist :bor 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. 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2007  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aWikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sceptical_Chymist  aRelease date is 2007-10-08  aE-text prepared by Robert Shimmin, Linda Cantoni, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team  a"The Sceptical Chymist" by Robert Boyle is a scientific work published in 1661. Written as a dialogue between five characters in a garden, this groundbreaking book challenges ancient theories about matter's composition. Boyle proposes that matter consists of moving corpuscles and clusters, while rejecting both Aristotle's four elements and Paracelsus' three principles. Instead, he defines elements as "perfectly unmingled bodies," laying foundations that would help establish modern chemistry. The work's influence gradually displaced centuries-old doctrines about the fundamental nature of matter. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  nOriginal publication data not identified  aChemistry -- Early works to 180040uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/22914  c64010d64010