Some considerations touching the usefulnesse of experimental naturall philosophy. Propos'd in familiar discourses to a friend, by way of invitation to the study of it / [Anon].

  • Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.
Date:
1663
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Credit: Some considerations touching the usefulnesse of experimental naturall philosophy. Propos'd in familiar discourses to a friend, by way of invitation to the study of it / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    taken notice of. Jnd as for the Five fir ft E flayst which treat of The LKefulnefs of Natural Philofophy to the Mind of Wi&n,though by my addr effing them all the Way to the Gentleman 1 call Pyrophilus, they may feem to have been Originally written to the fame P erf on and about the fame time With the EfTays, that make up the Second Part; yet indeed a great Portion of the Firfl part was Written, as l remember , i o or 12 years ago, (when 1 leas featceabove z i or i zyears old) to another Friend towhom the (fonfideratious that fer<v d to con¬ firm Piety, and excite'Devotion, were far more accep¬ table then thofe that were more purely PhyfiohgicaO : Jo that having, Whether through lacfineffe, or w ait of lei* Jure contented my [elf to /ubftitute the name of Pyro¬ philus for that of my other Friend {IV ho Was not unwil¬ ling l [hould do fo) in a Difcourfe written when I Was fo loung. I would not haVe the fieader think, that 1 do noW fo app) ove of all thofe Toothful Difmirfesfwhith l there¬ fore fuffer to pafs abroad without a Tfpme) as to think, all the Tenets they propofd to be irrefragable Truths, or all the fieajonings they contein, to be Demonjirative; &• that l would at prefent have my judgment eflimated according to their (ogency. Put yet l do Without much fieluFlancy comply With thofe Fr iends, who would by no means confcnt, that the Five firfl Efays of this Treatije Jhould not come forth With the!fie ft- partly btcauje not Writing