Project Gutenberg 2007-10-08 Public domain in the USA. 503 Boyle, Robert 1627 1691 Boyle, R. (Robert) 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 præmis'd Part of another Discourse relating to the same Subject. Reading ease score: 26.4 (College graduate level). Very difficult to read. E-text prepared by Robert Shimmin, Linda Cantoni, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team "The Sceptical Chymist" by Robert Boyle is a scientific treatise written in the 17th century. This work engages with the foundations of chemistry, specifically critiquing the widely accepted principles held by both Alchemists and Peripatetic philosophers regarding the basic components of matter. Boyle embarks on examining the nature and principles of elements, focusing on the limitations and ambiguities in conventional chemical doctrines. The opening of the work serves as an introduction where Boyle outlines the context and purpose of his discourse. He sets the stage for a philosophical debate, introducing characters like Carneades, who exemplifies skepticism towards established doctrines. Boyle hints at discussions centered around the nature of matter, specifically questioning the validity of the elemental theories proposed by the Alchemists and Aristotelian philosophers. He emphasizes an empirical approach, advocating for the examination of evidence provided by experiments rather than relying solely on established doctrines. Through a civil dialogue format, Boyle aims to address the doubts surrounding conventional chymical principles and thereby enrich the understanding of the fundamental nature of materials. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Chemistry -- Early works to 1800 QD Text Chemistry Browsing: Science - Chemistry/Biochemistry/Physics Browsing: Science - General 594101 593960 2024-10-10T06:03:58.945654 2023-09-10T09:10:46.965457 text/html text/html 604299 2007-10-08T11:32:57 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 475527 2007-10-08T11:33:23 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 492399 2024-10-10T06:04:06.441619 application/epub+zip 496709 2024-10-10T06:04:00.349653 application/epub+zip 408054 2024-10-10T06:03:59.613679 application/epub+zip 878791 2024-10-10T06:04:11.314609 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 812357 2024-10-10T06:04:05.631654 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 519284 2022-09-10T15:53:27.152655 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 538068 537973 2024-10-10T06:03:57.788701 2023-09-10T09:10:45.932450 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 538010 2007-10-08T11:18:56 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 195980 2007-10-08T11:18:56 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 538106 2007-10-08T11:18:56 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 195920 2007-10-08T11:18:56 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 21762 2024-10-10T06:04:11.451587 application/rdf+xml 23237 2024-10-10T06:03:59.733650 image/jpeg 3249 2024-10-10T06:03:59.680653 image/jpeg 470099 2024-10-10T06:03:59.014711 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia