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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46979	An essay concerning a vacuum Wherein is endeavoured to be demonstrated, that a vacuum interspersum runs through the world, and is more or less in all bodies. By a lover of the corpuscular philosophy.	Jackson, Joseph, fl. 1695-	1697 (1697)	Wing J85A; ESTC R219986	17,337	61

and to make all Bodies equally full it will follow that a Cube of Cork together with its included Ether must be as full of Matter as a Cube of Lead of the same Dimension and consequently must have equal Solidity and Closeness of Parts which will of necessity infer equal Weight upon the Scales there being no reason in the World why two Bodies of equal Solidity and Compactness should not have the same Specifick Gravity But now if Lead be twenty times heavier than Cork which is the least it must contain twenty times the Quantity of Matter that is twenty substantial Particles for one And the Dimensions being equal it must follow that in Lead twenty Particles of Matter are contain'd in the same Space or Compass for which there can be allowed but one Particle of the Cork and so one has as much Room in this as twenty in the other So that the Business comes to this Issue either a Vacuum or Penetration of Dimensions For if one Particle have the Room of twenty then either these twenty are thrust one into another which is impossible or else that one is placed at a distance from those about it But if one Particle be placed at a distance from another then is there empty Space between that is a Vacuum quod erat demonstrandum THE CONCLUSION THere is one thing I forgot to mention in its proper place and so I shall put it here for a Conclusion The Cartesians are wont to urge their Notion of a Body against this of a Vacuum Simple Extension according to them is that alone which constitutes Corporeity so that whatsoever is extended in Length Breadth and Thickness must be a Body and because a Vacuum may be supposed to have these Dimensions they will not allow of any such thing To this I answer First One may with equal if not far greater Reason object against their Notion than they against a Vacuum that being precarious and arbitrary and this resting upon clear Evidence And if I have demonstrated a Vacuum as I think I have then let their Notion of Simple Extension shift for it self Who gave them Authority to impose upon the World a Notion of which there is no Necessity no Evidence A Vacuum is necessary to give way to Motion since a close Constipation of Parts throughout the Universe will never admit of it And then it is evident there can be no degrees no Variety of Rarity and Density without a Vacuum since all must be equally dense and absolutely full as hath been shewed And as it is necessary to allow a Vacuum within the World so much more to admit one without or beyond it otherwise Matter would be infinite and if so I know not why it may not as well be Eternal and thus at last we shall make the World to be God himself as some Theists are said to do Now let the Plenists shew as great Necessity and as good Evidence for Simple Extension as hath been and may yet further be shewed for a Vacuum and it will deserve Consideration Secondly The antient Corpuscular Philosophy settling a distinct Notion of a Body makes it to be a Substance impenetrably extended which hath nothing belonging to it but Magnitude Figure Texture and Motion as Dr. Cudworth shews with great Learning in his Intellectual System Now this takes away all Confusion and sets every thing in clear Light For first it casts off those unintelligible Forms and Qualities of the Aristotelians which seem to be so many Spirits possessing as it were those Bodies to which they are said to belong it shews how far Body can go and where Incorporeal Substance begins Secondly it distinguishes a Body from the Space that it possesseth which Simple Extension does not for any Room that a Body fills is just as much extended as the Body that fills it but is not the same thing Thirdly it distinguishes a Body from a Spirit which is a Substance penetrable according to Dr. More For that Learned Man defines a Spirit to be a Substance penetrable and indiscerpible and a Body discerpible and impenetrable so that he makes Impenetrability essential to a Body without taking notice of Extension However I doubt not both he and others do allow Extension proper to a Body but I deny it to be the adequate Notion of it since it does not distinguish Body from Space and he that will not allow of that Distinction may say if he pleases that a Man differs not from the Chair he sits in or the Room he takes up And why must we subscribe to Des Cartes against the common Sense of Mankind since it is well known that that Gentleman has admitted sundry things into his Philosophy not because they are probable but because they agree with his Hypothesis witness the meer Mechanism and Insensibility of Brutes which few believe and most Men laugh at But let him pass with all the Honour he has got I grant he was a famous Wit and so I leave him And till I be better informed which I am always willing to be I apprehend the Matter thus Spirit Substance penetrable unextended Body Substance extended impenetrable Space or Vacuum penetrable extended no Substance Thirdly But because it may be wondred at by some that a pure Nothing should have Extension I make this Supposition which indeed has been made by others but the Inference arising thence I never yet saw answered by any It cannot be denied but that God Almighty who made all Things out of Nothing can reduce again all Things into Nothing at his Pleasure and can if he should think it fit annihilate the whole World or any part thereof Suppose then a Chamber or any determinate Space so many Yards be it more or less in Length Breadth and Height and that God by his Almighty Power should annihilate the Air within this Chamber and make it a Space purely void permitting the Walls to stand I would enquire of any Man that is not under a violent Prejudice whether this Chamber would not have the same Dimensions it had before And would it not be all one as to Length Breadth and Deepness whether it were filled with Lead or with Hay or whether it had Air within it or were quite empty Now this being supposed it is evident that a Vacuum may be extended and consequently that Simple Extension is not the full and adequate Notion of a Body And this may be sufficient for an Essay in which I have set down my Thoughts without design of Dogmatizing or Imposing I write for my own Instruction And if any Man will rectify and improve what I have left rude and imperfect he will much oblige me if none will be so kind I shall however obtain another End which I propose to my self namely innocent Diversion and the Pleasure of Speculation FINIS BOOKS sold by Andrew Bell at the Cross-keys and Bible in Cornhil near Stocks-market THE General History of England both Ecclesiastical and Civil from the earliest Accounts of Time to the Reign of his present Majesty King William III. Taken from the most Antient Records Manuscripts and Historians Containing the Lives of the Kings and Memorials of the most Eminent Persons both in Church and State With the Foundations of the Noted Monasteries and both the Universities Vol. I. By James Tyrrel Esq Fol. A New History of Ecclesiastical Writers Containing an Account of the Authors of the several Books of the Old and New Testament and the Lives and Writings of the Primitive Fathers An Abridgment and Catalogue of all their Works c. To which is added A Compendious History of the Councils c. Written in French by Lewis Ellies du Pin Doctor of the Sorbon In seven Volumes Fol. A Detection of the Court and State of England during the Four last Reigns and the Interregnum Consisting of Private Memoirs c. with Observations and Reflections And an Appendix discovering the present State of the Nation Wherein are many Secrets never before made publick as also a more impartial Account of the Civil Wars in England than has yet been given By Rog. Coke Esq The third Edition much corrected with an Alphabetical Table