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The sceptical chymist; or, Chymico-physical doubts & paradoxes

by Robert Boyle

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  • 17th century
  • Languages: English, Latin
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I Perceive that divers of my Friends have thought it very strange to hear me speak so irresolvedly, as I have been wont to do, concerning those things which some take to be the Elements, and others to be the Principles of all mixt Bodies.

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  • Alchemy and Hermeticism

    Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary matched “Alchemy”. Retained metadata contains “Alchemy” in the subject metadata.

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  • Legendary beings and transformations

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The Sceptical Chymist. Everyman's Library No. 559

1915J M Dent & Sons LtdEnglish—Public

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