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A57675 The philosophicall touch-stone, or, Observations upon Sir Kenelm Digbie's Discourses of the nature of bodies and of the reasonable soule in which his erroneous paradoxes are refuted, the truth, and Aristotelian philosophy vindicated, the immortality of mans soule briefly, but sufficiently proved, and the weak fortifications of a late Amsterdam ingeneer, patronizing the soules mortality, briefly slighted / by Alexander Ross. Ross, Alexander, 1591-1654. 1645 (1645) Wing R1979; ESTC R200130 90,162 146

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effect_n of_o extension_n this_o be_v not_o the_o essence_n of_o quantity_n sect_n 2._o rarity_n the_o effect_n not_o the_o cause_n of_o heat_n rarefy_v body_n not_o the_o hot_a sec._n 3._o the_o essence_n of_o local_a motion_n consist_v not_o in_o divisibility_n sec._n 4._o place_n be_v not_o a_o body_n but_o the_o superficies_n of_o a_o body_n sec._n 5._o not_o density_n but_o gravity_n be_v the_o cause_n of_o activity_n and_o frigidity_n cause_n of_o both_o sec._n 6._o pressure_n and_o penetration_n not_o part_n but_o effect_n of_o frigidity_n heat_n be_v more_o pierce_a sec._n 7._o though_o accident_n be_v real_a entity_n yet_o they_o exist_v not_o by_o themselves_o sec._n 8._o heat_n be_v not_o the_o substance_n of_o the_o fire_n sec._n 9_o light_n no_o body_n but_o a_o quality_n prove_v by_o twelve_o reason_n nor_o can_v it_o be_v fire_n sec._n 10._o of_o the_o quality_n of_o light_n and_o how_o it_o heat_n and_o how_o it_o perish_v sec._n 11_o 12._o the_o dilatation_n and_o 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