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         Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.
      
       
         
           1675
        
      
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             Advertisements about the experiments and notes relating to chymical qualities
             Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.
          
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             s.n.,
             [London? :
             1675?]
          
           
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           ADVERTISEMENTS
           About
           the
           EXPERIMENTS
           AND
           NOTES
           Relating
           to
           CHYMICAL
           Qualities
           .
        
         
           WHen
           ,
           after
           I
           had
           gone
           through
           the
           common
           Operations
           of
           Chymistry
           ,
           I
           began
           to
           make
           some
           serious
           Reflections
           on
           them
           ,
           I
           thought
           't
           was
           pity
           ,
           that
           Instruments
           that
           might
           prove
           so
           serviceable
           to
           the
           advancement
           of
           Natural
           Philosophy
           ,
           should
           not
           be
           more
           studiously
           and
           skilfully
           made
           use
           of
           to
           so
           good
           
           a
           purpose
           .
           I
           saw
           indeed
           ,
           that
           divers
           of
           the
           Chymists
           had
           by
           a
           diligent
           and
           laudable
           employment
           of
           their
           pains
           and
           industry
           ,
           obtain'd
           divers
           Productions
           ,
           and
           lighted
           on
           several
           Phaenomena
           considerable
           in
           thier
           kind
           ,
           and
           indeed
           more
           numerous
           ,
           than
           ,
           the
           narrowness
           and
           sterility
           of
           their
           Principles
           consider'd
           ,
           could
           well
           be
           expected
           .
           But
           I
           observed
           too
           ,
           that
           the
           generality
           of
           those
           that
           busie
           themselves
           about
           Chymical
           Operations
           ;
           some
           because
           they
           practise
           Physick
           ;
           and
           others
           because
           they
           either
           much
           wanted
           ,
           or
           greedily
           coveted
           money
           ,
           aimed
           in
           their
           Trials
           but
           at
           the
           Preparation
           of
           good
           Medicines
           for
           the
           humane
           body
           ,
           or
           to
           discover
           the
           ways
           of
           curing
           the
           Diseases
           or
           Imperfections
           of
           Metals
           ,
           without
           referring
           their
           Trials
           to
           the
           advancement
           of
           Natural
           Philosophy
           in
           general
           ;
           of
           which
           most
           of
           the
           Alchymists
           seem
           to
           have
           been
           so
           incurious
           ,
           that
           not
           onely
           they
           did
           not
           institute
           Experiments
           
           for
           that
           purpose
           ,
           but
           overlookt
           and
           despis'd
           those
           undesign'd
           ones
           that
           occurr'd
           to
           them
           whilst
           they
           were
           prosecuting
           a
           preparation
           of
           a
           Medicine
           ,
           or
           a
           Transmutation
           of
           Metals
           .
           The
           sense
           I
           had
           of
           this
           too
           general
           omission
           of
           the
           Chymists
           ,
           tempted
           me
           sometimes
           to
           try
           ,
           whether
           I
           could
           do
           any
           thing
           towards
           the
           repairing
           of
           it
           by
           handling
           Chymistry
           ,
           not
           as
           a
           Physician
           or
           an
           Alchymist
           ,
           but
           as
           a
           meer
           Naturalist
           ,
           and
           so
           by
           applying
           Chymical
           Operations
           to
           Philosophical
           purposes
           .
           And
           in
           pursuance
           of
           these
           thoughts
           ,
           I
           remember
           I
           drew
           up
           a
           Scheme
           of
           what
           I
           ventur'd
           to
           call
           a
           
             Chymia
             Philosophica
          
           ,
           not
           out
           of
           any
           affectation
           of
           a
           splendid
           Title
           ,
           but
           to
           intimate
           ,
           that
           the
           Chymical
           Operations
           ,
           there
           treated
           of
           ,
           were
           not
           directed
           to
           the
           usual
           scopes
           of
           Physicians
           ,
           or
           Transmuters
           of
           Metals
           ,
           but
           partly
           to
           illustrate
           or
           confirm
           some
           Philosophical
           Theories
           by
           such
           Operations
           ;
           and
           partly
           to
           explicate
           those
           Operations
           
           by
           the
           help
           of
           such
           Theories
           .
        
         
           But
           before
           I
           had
           made
           any
           great
           progress
           in
           the
           pursuit
           of
           this
           design
           ,
           the
           fatal
           Pestilence
           that
           raged
           in
           London
           ,
           and
           in
           many
           other
           parts
           of
           England
           ,
           in
           the
           years
           1664
           and
           65
           ,
           obliging
           me
           among
           the
           rest
           to
           make
           several
           removes
           ;
           which
           put
           me
           upon
           taking
           new
           measures
           ,
           and
           engaging
           me
           in
           other
           employments
           of
           my
           time
           ,
           made
           me
           so
           long
           neglect
           the
           Papers
           I
           had
           drawn
           up
           ,
           that
           at
           last
           I
           knew
           not
           where
           to
           finde
           them
           ,
           (
           though
           I
           hope
           they
           are
           not
           yet
           mislaid
           beyond
           recovery
           ,
           )
           which
           I
           was
           the
           less
           troubled
           at
           ,
           because
           the
           great
           difficulties
           ,
           to
           be
           met
           with
           in
           such
           an
           undertaking
           ,
           did
           not
           a
           little
           discourage
           me
           ,
           such
           a
           Task
           requiring
           as
           well
           as
           deserving
           a
           Person
           better
           furnished
           ,
           than
           I
           had
           reason
           to
           think
           my self
           ,
           with
           Abilities
           ,
           Leisure
           ,
           Chymical
           Experiments
           ,
           and
           Conveniences
           ,
           to
           try
           as
           many
           more
           as
           should
           appear
           needful
           .
           But
           yet
           
           to
           break
           the
           Ice
           for
           any
           that
           may
           hereafter
           think
           fit
           to
           set
           upon
           such
           a
           Work
           ,
           or
           to
           shorten
           my
           own
           Labour
           ,
           if
           I
           should
           see
           cause
           to
           resume
           it
           my self
           ,
           I
           was
           content
           to
           throw
           in
           among
           my
           Notes
           about
           other
           Particular
           Qualities
           ,
           some
           Experiments
           and
           Observations
           about
           some
           of
           those
           ,
           that
           I
           have
           elsewhere
           call'd
           
             Chymical
             Qualities
          
           ,
           because
           't
           is
           chiefly
           by
           the
           Operations
           of
           Chymists
           ,
           that
           men
           have
           been
           induced
           to
           take
           special
           notice
           of
           them
           .
           Of
           these
           Notes
           I
           have
           assigned
           to
           some
           Qualities
           more
           ,
           and
           to
           some
           fewer
           ,
           as
           either
           the
           nature
           or
           importance
           of
           the
           Subject
           seemed
           to
           require
           ,
           or
           my
           Leisure
           and
           other
           Circumstances
           would
           permit
           .
           And
           though
           I
           have
           not
           here
           handled
           the
           Subjects
           they
           belonged
           to
           ,
           as
           if
           I
           intended
           such
           a
           
             Chymia
             Philosophica
          
           as
           I
           lately
           mentioned
           ,
           because
           my
           design
           did
           not
           make
           it
           necessary
           ,
           but
           did
           perhaps
           make
           it
           impertinent
           for
           me
           to
           do
           so
           ,
           yet
           in
           some
           of
           the
           larger
           
           Notes
           about
           Volatility
           and
           Fixtness
           ,
           and
           especially
           about
           Precipitation
           ,
           I
           have
           given
           some
           little
           Specimens
           of
           the
           Theorical
           part
           of
           a
           Philosophical
           Account
           of
           those
           Qualities
           or
           Operations
           ,
           that
           I
           hope
           will
           not
           be
           wholly
           useless
           .
           I
           know
           ,
           it
           may
           be
           objected
           ,
           that
           I
           should
           have
           employed
           for
           Instances
           some
           more
           considerable
           Experiments
           ,
           if
           not
           Arcana
           ;
           but
           though
           possibly
           I
           am
           not
           altogether
           unfurnished
           with
           such
           ,
           yet
           aiming
           rather
           to
           promote
           Philosophy
           ,
           than
           appear
           a
           Possessor
           of
           elaborate
           Processes
           ,
           I
           declined
           several
           Experiments
           that
           required
           either
           more
           skill
           ,
           or
           more
           time
           ,
           or
           more
           expence
           than
           could
           be
           well
           expected
           from
           most
           Readers
           ,
           and
           chose
           rather
           to
           employ
           such
           Experiments
           as
           may
           be
           more
           easily
           or
           cheaply
           tried
           ,
           and
           ,
           which
           is
           mainly
           to
           be
           consider'd
           ,
           being
           more
           simple
           ,
           are
           more
           clearly
           intelligible
           ,
           and
           more
           fit
           to
           have
           Notions
           and
           Theories
           built
           upon
           them
           ;
           especially
           considering
           ,
           
           that
           the
           Doctrine
           of
           Qualities
           being
           it self
           conversant
           about
           some
           of
           the
           Rudimental
           parts
           ,
           if
           I
           may
           so
           call
           them
           ,
           of
           Natural
           Philosophy
           ,
           it
           seemed
           unfit
           to
           employ
           intricate
           Experiments
           ,
           and
           whose
           Causes
           were
           liable
           to
           many
           disputes
           ,
           to
           settle
           a
           Theory
           of
           them
           .
           In
           short
           ,
           my
           design
           being
           to
           hold
           a
           Taper
           not
           so
           much
           to
           Chymists
           as
           to
           the
           Naturalists
           ,
           't
           was
           fit
           I
           should
           be
           less
           solicitous
           to
           gratifie
           the
           former
           than
           to
           inform
           the
           later
           .
        
         
           FINIS
           .
        
      
    
     
  

