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A42035 Curiosities in chymistry being new experiments and observations concerning the principles of natural bodies / written by a person of honour ; and published by his operator, H.G. Person of honour.; Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691. 1691 (1691) Wing G1877; ESTC R9237 46,575 122

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Philosophical work of Transmutation because its Sulphur being once Coagulated loses all Power of Motion for the future and therefore is unfruitful and dead But 't was this same Seminal Sulphur that when the Gold was produc'd did Coagulate it self with Mercury and thereby convert it into Gold And there appears not any solid Reason against the possibility of the Transmutation so much sought after since though Seeds cannot be converted into other Seeds yet those that are endow'd with a weaker Mover may be overcome by and brought under the Dominion of such Seeds as are furnished with a stronger And now having establish'd the Material and Formal Principles of Natural Bodies the Efficient only remains to be consider'd Prop. XVIII The chief Mover under God of all Natural Bodies that actuates and foecundates all Animal Vegetable and Mineral Seeds that Coagulates Elementary Water into all sorts of Bodies according to the various Ideas of those Seeds that applies the same Water to those Ideas and in a word the chief Efficient in all the Phaenomena of Nature is a certain subtil Spirit of an Igneous nature diffus'd through the whole visible World but chiefly treasur'd up at the Center thereof in the Sun N.B. 1. BY Spirit here is not meant an Immaterial Substance but a Body consisting of very Minute and very Active Particles peculiarly fitted for Motion and endow'd with a great measure of it 2. By the visible World I understand here that part of the Corporeal Universe which contains the Earth with the other six Planets and makes up one great Vortex whereof the Sun is the Center As for the rest of the Universe it is altogether unknown to us only as that most ingenious conjecture of the incomparable Des Cartes concerning it is very likely to be true namely that every one of the fixt Stars we see is the Center and Sun as 't were of a distinct Vortex So 't is no less likely that each of them has the same relation to its own Vortex and the same Influence upon the Planets or whatever Bodies they are which it contains that the Sun has to our Vortex and upon the Bodies comprehended there in particularly the Terraqueous Globe And though this Part of our Authors Hypothesis concerning the Anima Mundi or Vniversal Spirit may be applicable in the sense newly explain'd to the whole Universe of Bodies yet his other Principles of Water and Seeds are not so comprehensive and whatever he says of them must be limited to the Bodies contain'd in this little Point of the Universe that the Almighty Creator has given to Mankind for an Habitation And the truth is we have but little certain knowledg of the other Parts of the World and that little we have is very superficial 3. This Vniversal Spirit is actually Igneous in its Fountain the Sun and after it is incorporated in Terrestrial Bodies even the coldest of them it differs but in the slower Motion of its Particles from actual Fire and therefore when-ever they are put into a rapid motion it turns into actual Fire again And those Particles of Combustible Bodies that being in a vehement Agitation do chiefly constitute our Culinary Fire were once Particles of this Vniversal Spirit and came Originally from the Sun 4. This is the Spirit that mov'd upon the Water at the beginning of the Creation For when God created the Matter of which he intended to form this Terraqueous Globe namely a great Mass of simple Elementary Water he endow'd it with all sorts of Seeds and made use of this Spirit to Coagulate a great part of the foresaid Mass according to the Signatures of those Seeds into Mineral Vegetable and Animal Bodies of all kinds And the Word in the Original which our Translators render Mov'd seems to agree very well with this Hypothesis For it properly belongs to Birds sitting upon and fluttering over their Eggs and young ones to excite quicken and foecundate the Seed contain'd in the Eggs and so bring forth the young ones and to cherish them when they are brought forth so that in this place the Word may be very reasonably suppos'd to imply that the Vital Spirit which God had Created did as 't were sit upon and move it self in the Waters to actuate the Seeds they contain'd and by this means Hatch'd as 't were and brought forth the after-mention'd Bodies 5. Tho' this Spirit by Coagulating the Elementary Water into several Bodies was it self Coagulated and Incorporated together with it and tho' it has been propagated to all sorts of Bodies that have been produc'd by Generation ever since the Terraqueous Globe was first Created so that every fruitful Seed has a Particle of this quickning Spirit connate with it Yet this Particle is not sufficient to accomplish the Evolution of the seminal Ideas and actuate the Body in all the Functions that belong to it unless it be maintain'd corroborated and multipli'd by constant fresh supplies from that Inexhaustible Treasure of this Vital Fire which is plac'd in the Sun and thence diffus'd with the Rayes of that glorious Body to all Parts of the visible World and particularly to the Terraqueous Globe where it maintains and actuates the fore-mention'd Native Spirit of all Animals Vegetables and Minerals 6. The Vital Substance that flows continually from the Sun is equally capable of all Forms and unites it self indifferently with all Seeds But when 't is once united it loses its indifferency and is specifi'd according to the determinate nature of every particular Seed that it incorporates with Hence the Sulphurs of Vegetables are quite different from those of Animals and both from the Sulphurs of Minerals nor can they be transmuted into one another by humane Art So streightly does the Vniversal Spirit unite it self with particular Seeds The reason of this so close an union is because the Native pre-existent in every Seed is of the same Spirit Nature and Original with this Vniversal Spirit As for the Proof of the Proposition hitherto explained the Vniversal Spirit asserted in it is manifest 1. From the absolute necessity of constant Respiration to Men and most other Animals for hence it is evident that there is a certain Vital Substance in the Air that they cannot live a Minute without fresh supplies of now that the Air is but the Vehicle of this Vital Substance flowing continually from the Sun and the Medium through which it is convey'd to sublunary Bodies shall be prov'd hereafter So that it must be the Vniversal Spirit cloath'd with Air that is constantly receiv'd into the Lungs by Inspiration and thence transmitted to the Heart which being the chief Fountain of the Animal Life that constantly diffuses a Vital Spirit through the Arteries together with the Blood to all Parts of the Body and thereby maintains and cherishes the Native Heat and Vital Spirit residing in each of them must have constant supplies from the Vniversal Spirit to Corroborate Maintain and Multiply its own Particular Spirit For the
Imprimatur Tractatus Cui Titulus Curiosities in Chymistry Sept. 30. 1690. Ex Aedibus Collegij Guall Charleton Proefes Coll. Med. Lond. Censore Tho. Burwell J. Gordon Will. Dawes Tho. Gill. Curiosities in Chymistry BEING NEW EXPERIMENTS AND Observations Concerning the PRINCIPLES OF Natural Bodies Written by a Person of HONOUR and Published by his Operator H. G. LONDON Printed b● H.C. for Stafford Anson at the Three Pigeons in St. Paul's Church-yard 1691. NEW EXPERIMENTS AND OBSERVATIONS Concerning the PRINCIPLES OF NATURAL BODIES The Introduction THE Ingenious Author of this Treatise has herein laid a great many Experiments and Observations together in order to prove that Water is the only first Material Principle of Natural Bodies and that all the other pretended Hypostatical Principles are ultimate and reducible into mere Elementary Water Wherefore to give a brief and perspicuous account of his Reasonings upon this Subject he has thought it expedient to reduce them to the following Propositions Sect. I. The Ardent Spirits of Vegetables are nothing else but the Oleous Particles of these Vegetables subtilized by Fermentation and thereby dissolved in and united to some part of their own Phlegm FOR Lavender Rue Marjoram c. distilled without addition and without a previous Fermentation afford an Oyl but never yield any burning Spirit Whereas after Fermentation they yield an ardent Spirit but no Oyl which is a manifest proof that the inflamable Oyl is converted into an inflamable Spirit especially since by the lasting action of the Air upon this Spirit the Oleous part will at last be brought to separate it self from the phlegm and swim above it Moreover if you pour Oyls in small quantity upon Fermenting Vegetables they will come over in Distillation in the form of Spirits As for the Spirits of Aniseeds Wormwood and such other Oleous and Aromatick Vegetables that are prepared with Spirit of Wine without any previous Fermentation they are nothing else but the Oyls of these Vegetables that the Spirit of Wine has imbibed and carried up along with it in Distillation For this Spirit being it self no other thing than the Oyl of Wine Dissolv'd in Phlegm will presently imbibe any Aromatick Oyl dropt into it Hence it is that in the Preparation of Spirit of Aniseeds the Oleous part of the Spirit of Wine imbibes as much of their Oyl as it can receive and the rest for they abound with Oyl being joyn'd with the Phlegmatick part of the Spirit of Wine compose a Milk-coloured Liquor as all Oyls do when they are mixed with Water which we see daily in the Preparation of Emulsions whose Oily parts may be imbibed by fresh Spirit of Wine and by that means yield Spirit of Aniseeds anew Finally 't is upon the account of their Oleous nature that ardent Spirits are so Inflamable and that they so much weaken the Corroding Acidity of Aqua fortis as to render it innocent enough to be taken inwardly though they themselves be endowed with a certain Volatile Acid. Sect. II. The Spirits of Vegetables made by Incineration are nothing else but the Volatile Salts of the Tartar of these Plants dissolved in their own Phlegm FOR they consist of the Effluvia that ascend from the Plants while their Tartar is a Calcining into a fixt Salt kept from flying away into the Air by reason of the peculiar structure of the Furnaces c. imployed in this kind of Incineration and are therefore altogether of the same nature with Spirit of Soot or even with the genuine bitterish Alcaline Spirit of Tartar of Wine N.B. Since in the Juice of Grapes the Alcali and Acid mutually Coagulated obtain the name of Tartar Why should not the same Salts con-coagulated in the Juices of other Vegetables though endowed with very different Seeds obtain the same Appellation rather than that of Essential Salts For there is really in the Juices of all Vegetables a Tartar not unlike to that of Wine So that the Spirits prepared by the Incineration of Plants do like that of Vinous Tartar proceed from the Tartars of these Plants which seeing they consist of the same Salts namely Alcaly and Acid those Spirits are indeed nothing else but these Salts in a Fluid state Hence if genuine Spirit of Tartar be drawn off from an Alcalisate Salt the Volatile Acid being left in the fixt Alcaly it will strike your Nose with the pungent scent of a Volatile Urinous Salt Sect. III. The Alcaline Vrinous Spirits of Animals are nothing else but the Volatile Salts of these Animals dissolved in a little of their own Phlegm FOR 1. If you put Spirit of Urine or any other Urinous Spirit well rectified into a glass conveniently shaped a gentle heat will sublime good store of dry Volatile Salt into the slender neck of the Glass leaving a weak Phlegmatick Liquor in the bottom which would be mere insipid Phlegm if it could be perfectly freed from the Volatile Salt that 't is yet impregnated with and from the subtle Particles of Oyl that generally if not constantly ascend together with these Spirits and continue invisibly mixed with them though never so well rectified even to a perfect transparency for a long time 'till at length by the action of the Air or evaporation of the Volatile Salt if the Glass be not very well stop'd or the intestine motion of the parts of the Liquor though it be the Particles of Oyl begin to seperate themselves from the rest of the Liquor and gather together into numerous little drops which though they be singly invisible yet render the whole Liquor muddy and of a reddish colour 2. In the Distillation for instance of Fermented Urine or of Sal Armoniack mingled with a fixt Salt usually the Volatile Salt sublimes at first in a dry form but if you continue the Distillation so much of the Phlegm will ascend as shall dissolve all your Volatile Salt and wash it it down into the Receiver where you have it in the form of a Spirit 3. If you dissolve in common Water Distilled as much Volatile Salt of Human Blood for instance as it will take up and Distil this mixture you will by that means obtain a Liquor that by its smell tast and divers Operations appears to be a good brisk Spirit of Human Blood as that incomparable promoter of Experimental Philosophy Mr. Boyle has observed in his late useful Treatise about Human Blood The same is to be said of the Alcaline Spirits that are Distilled from Peas Beans and some other Vegetables For they appear by divers effects to be much of the same nature with Urinous Spirits Sect. IV. The Acid Spirits of Minerals as Sea-salt Vitriol Sulphur c. are nothing else but the Acid Salts of these Minerals freed from the more Terrestrial Parts united with a little Phlegm and so reduced into a fluid state by the force of the fire FOR you may reduce them to a dry Salt by pouring them upon an Alcaly For instance Spirit of Vitriol after it