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100 1 _aBoyle, Robert,
_d1627-1691
245 1 4 _aThe 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.
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2007
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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_2rdacarrier
500 _aWikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sceptical_Chymist
500 _aRelease date is 2007-10-08
508 _aE-text prepared by Robert Shimmin, Linda Cantoni, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team
520 _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.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aChemistry -- Early works to 1800
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/22914
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