item: #1 of 10 id: A27223 author: Becher, Johann Joachim, 1635-1682. title: Magnalia naturæ, or, The philosophers-stone lately exposed to public sight and scale being a true and exact account of the manner how Wenceslaus Seilerus, the late famous projection-maker at the emperours court at Vienna, came by and made away with a very great quantity of pouder of projection by projecting with it before the emperour and a great many witnesses, selling it &c. for some years past / by John Joachim Becher : published at the request, and for the satisfaction of several curious, especially of Mr. Boyl &c. date: 1680 words: 12973 flesch: 46 summary: the Honesty of F. Fra. Preyhausen , who deserves to be chronicled for his Faithfulness & Truth to F. Wenceslaus the Finder of this Pouder : for he wanted neither frequent Opportunities nor specious Pretences to effect what som Princes could not forbear to attempt ( i. to rob Wenceslaus of his Powder ) eng Seilerus, Wenceslaus. keywords: count; day; father; francis; fryer; gold; majesty; means; monastery; order; powder; tcp; text; thing; time; tincture; vienna; wenceslaus cache: A27223.xml plain text: A27223.txt item: #2 of 10 id: A28937 author: Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691. title: Advertisements about the experiments and notes relating to chymical qualities date: 1675 words: 1719 flesch: 48 summary: (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A28937) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 109769) Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor. keywords: eebo; experiments; tcp; text cache: A28937.xml plain text: A28937.txt item: #3 of 10 id: A28938 author: Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691. title: The aerial noctiluca, or, Some new phœnomena, and a process of a factitious self-shining substance imparted in a letter to a friend living in the country / by the honourable Robert Boyle ... date: 1680 words: 18131 flesch: 42 summary: For having purposely kept certain Fish in a Glass , freed from Air , till I concluded it had lay'n longer than was necessary to bring it to that degree of Putrefaction , which was wont to make such Fish , at that time of the year , to shine , I could not perceive in the Cavity of the Glass the least glimpse of light : and presently after I had let in the outward Air , it did ( according to my expectation ) as it were , kindle a flame , in the proximately dispos'd matter , or at least produce in it a manifest light . And to examine that suspicion , I thought it less proper to make the foregoing Tryals with a more vigorous Noctiluca , then in a substance , wherein , as in that we have hitherto employ'd , the disposition to be kindled , or excited to shine , was but faint ; so that being , as long as it remain'd , unexcited , opacous and dark , the absolute , or almost absolute , necessity of the concurrence of Air to the actual shining ( that constantly ensu'd upon its Contact ) of the dispos'd matter , seem'd manifest enough . keywords: air; flame; glass; light; liquor; little; matter; noctiluca; observ; phoenomena; phosphorus; shine; shining; substance; time; vial cache: A28938.xml plain text: A28938.txt item: #4 of 10 id: A28965 author: Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691. title: Essays of the strange subtilty great efficacy determinate nature of effluviums. To which are annext New experiments to make fire and flame ponderable. : Together with A discovery of the perviousness of glass. : Also An essay, about the origine and virtue of gems. / By the Honourable Robert Boyle ... ; To which is added The prodromus to a dissertation concerning solids naturally contained within solids giving an account of the Earth, and its productions. By Nicholas Steno. ; Englished by H.O. date: 1673 words: 47456 flesch: 44 summary: The Author having many years ago written an Essay about an Experiment he made of Nitre , by whose Phaenomena he endeavour'd to exemplifie some parts of the Corpuscular Philosophy , especially the Production of Qualities ; he afterwards threw together divers occurring thoughts and experiments , which he suppos'd might be imployed by way of Notes , to prove or illustrate those Doctrines , and especially those that concern'd the Qualities of Bodies ; and among these observing those that are call'd Occult , to be Subjects uncultivated enough , ( at least in the way that seem'd to him proper , ) he propos'd to handle them more largely than most of the rest ; and in order to that Design he judg'd it almost necessary , to premise some Considerations and experimental Collections about the Nature and power of Effluviums , about the Pores of Bodies and Figures of Corpuscles , and about the efficacy of such Local-motions as are wont either to be judged very faint , or to be pass'd by unheeded . WHether we suppose with the Antient and Modern Atomists , that all sensible Bodies are made up of Corpuscles , not only insensible , but indivisible ; or whether we think with the Cartesians , and ( as many of that Party teach us ) with Aristotle , that Matter , like Quantity , is indefinitely , if not infinitely divisible : It will be consonant enough to either Doctrine , that the Effluvia of Bodies may consist of Particles extremely small . keywords: air; bodies; body; copper; corpuscles; divers; effluvia; effluviums; experiment; fire; fit; flame; glass; grains; half; hours; instances; lead; liquor; matter; metal; minute; nature; operation; ounce; particles; parts; place; pores; self; spirit; steams; time; tin; tryals; water; way; weight cache: A28965.xml plain text: A28965.txt item: #5 of 10 id: A28974 author: Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691. title: Experiments and considerations about the porosity of bodies in two essays / by the honourable Robert Boyle ... date: 1684 words: 25189 flesch: 43 summary: Having then made several inquiries fit for my purpose , his Lordship told me , that when he did , as he was wont to do from time to time , ( though not every day ) inject with a Syringe some actually warm medicated Liquor into his Thorax , to cleanse and cherish the Parts , he should quickly and plainly find in his Mouth the tast and smell of the Drugs , wherewith the Liquor had been impregnated . That part of this Narrative which relates to Injections may be much confirm'd by what is delivered by Galen himself , who says that Mulsum or Honeyed Water , being injected at the Orifice of Wounds penetrating into the cavity of the Thorax , has been observed to be in part received into the Lungs , and discharged out of the Aspera Arteria by coughing . keywords: air; animals; bodies; body; bones; colour; corpuscles; divers; experiment; glass; having; liquor; matter; membranes; metal; parts; pores; porosity; self; silver; skin; substance; time; vessels; water; way cache: A28974.xml plain text: A28974.txt item: #6 of 10 id: A34451 author: Cooper, William, fl. 1668-1688. title: The Philosophical epitaph of W.C. Esquire for a memento mori on his tomb-stone, vvith three hieroglyphical scutcheons and their philosophical motto's and explanation : with the philosophical Mercury, nature of seed and life, and growth of metalls, and a discovery of the immortal liquor alchahest : the salt of tartar volatized and other elixirs with their differences. Also, A brief of the golden calf, the worlds idol : discovering the rarest miracle in nature, ... / by Jo. Fr. Helvetius. And, The golden ass well managed and Midas restor'd to reason, or, A new chymical light : demonstrating to the blind world that good gold may be found as well in cold as hot regions, and be profitably extracted out of sand, stones, gravel and flints &c. .../ written by Jo. Rod. Glauber. With Jehior, aurora sapientiae, or, The day dawning or light of wisdom : containing the three principles or original of all things whereby are discovered the great and many mysteries of God, nature and the elements, hitherto hid, now revealed / all published by W.C. Esquire. : with a catalogue of chymical books. date: 1673 words: 59543 flesch: 65 summary: Not so , not so ; ( said he ) for ●e ought to divulge all things to the Children of Art ; which may tend to the singular honour of God , that so they may live in the Theosophical truth , and not at all die Sophistically . In this book is hidden , sealed ; and also manifest and opened all Wisdom : and man is called the Image or Honour of God : ( o● which below ) and man cannot be called by any other name , 1 Cor. keywords: beginning; body; chap; christ; chymical; creation; day; doth; earth; elements; essence; fire; god; gods; gold; good; hath; heaven; holy; image; knowledge; lead; life; light; living; lond; lord; man; matter; medicine; mercury; metals; mystery; nature; new; philosophers; philosophical; principles; salt; sand; seed; self; silver; soul; spirit; spiritual; stone; sulphur; things; thou; till; time; tincture; truth; use; vide; water; wind; wisdom; work; world cache: A34451.xml plain text: A34451.txt item: #7 of 10 id: A39816 author: Fletcher, R. (Richard), fl. 1676-1677. title: A vindication of chymistry, and chymical medicines Courteous and candid reader, chymistry, is an art that doth both teach and inable us (for our exceeding good and benefit) to seperate purity from impurity; ... date: 1676 words: 4890 flesch: 60 summary: The Consideration of Nature will tell you , what her Medicines ought to be , and a true consideration of such Medicines , will teach and tell you , what Nature is , so that the quality of the one will inform you what the Nature and Essence of the other ought to be ; for the Physician must ( if he will Cure a Disease ) Essence of Marjoram , Cures Diseases of the Brain . keywords: art; chymistry; cures; essence; good; medicines; nature; tcp; text; use cache: A39816.xml plain text: A39816.txt item: #8 of 10 id: A42035 author: Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691. title: Curiosities in chymistry being new experiments and observations concerning the principles of natural bodies / written by a person of honour ; and published by his operator, H.G. date: 1691 words: 24358 flesch: 48 summary: Since Tallow , as well as every other Body , is materially nothing else but water Coagulated by a seminal Acid , and since 't is only the Acid Particles that feed the Flame ; it follows , that when they are consum'd , he remainder , being robb'd of , the Coagulating , Acid must return into Elementary Water , and therefore 't is insensibly dissipated like a Vapour : even as the water of Spirit of Wine kindled vanishes into a Vapour . The diversity , that is among Natural Bodies , is wholly owing to the different Seminal Ideas , that regulate the Operation of the Plastick Spirit , which Coagulates Water into various Substances , differing in Figure , Solidity , Bigness , Order and Connection of Parts , and other Modifications , according as its Motions are guided by these Ideas . keywords: acid; animals; author; blood; bodies; body; earth; fire; fixt; foetus; idea; motion; nature; oyl; particles; parts; salt; seed; spirit; tartar; tho; vegetables; volatile; water; wine cache: A42035.xml plain text: A42035.txt item: #9 of 10 id: A42102 author: Grew, Nehemiah, 1641-1712. title: A discourse made before the Royal Society, Decemb. 10, 1674 concerning the nature, causes, and power of mixture / by Nehemiah Grew. date: 1675 words: 9634 flesch: 69 summary: 1. Congruity , or aptitude and respondence betwixt the Sizes and Figures of parts to be mixed : whereby bodies may be truly called the Instrumental Causes of their own Mixture , As when a plain answers to a plain , a square to a square , a convex to a concave , or a less to a greater or an equal , &c. according to which Respondencies in the parts of Bodies , they are more or less easily mingleable . What we have said of Principles ; and of Mixture as consequent thereupon ; may be a foundation for an intelligible account , of the Nature and Cause of most of the Intrinsick Properties , and Qualities of Bodies : as of Gravity , Levity , Fixity , Fluidity , Angularity , Roundness , Heat , Cold , Blackness , Whiteness , Sowerness , Sweetness , Fragrancy , Fetidness , and very many more . keywords: atomes; bodies; body; causes; elements; mixture; nature; oyl; parts; principles; salt; self cache: A42102.xml plain text: A42102.txt item: #10 of 10 id: A70016 author: Emes, Thomas, d. 1707. title: A letter to a gentleman concerning alkali and acid being an answer to a late piece, intituled, A letter to a physician concerning acid and alkali : to which is added A specimen of a new hypothesis for the sake of the lovers of medicine / by Thomas Emes ... date: 1700 words: 22774 flesch: 61 summary: But what has Poetry to do with the pretended new Hypothesis of Acids , or the Dialogue between Alkali and Acid ? In answer to my Assertion , That Alkalies , when in Solution , are not coagulated alone , but by meeting with Acids ; and so that the Chalky Matter in the Gout will not prove the Disease caus'd by Alkali , rather than Acid ; he replys , pag. 81. keywords: acid; alkali; alkalies; answer; blood; body; cause; diseases; gentleman; oyl; pag; salt; thing; tho; water cache: A70016.xml plain text: A70016.txt