Advertisements about the experiments and notes relating to chymical qualities Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691. 1675 Approx. 6 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 4 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2007-01 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1). A28937 Wing B3924 ESTC R43066 26734233 ocm 26734233 109769 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. 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WHen , after I had gone through the common Operations of Chymistry , I began to make some serious Reflections on them , I thought 't was pity , that Instruments that might prove so serviceable to the advancement of Natural Philosophy , should not be more studiously and skilfully made use of to so good a purpose . I saw indeed , that divers of the Chymists had by a diligent and laudable employment of their pains and industry , obtain'd divers Productions , and lighted on several Phaenomena considerable in thier kind , and indeed more numerous , than , the narrowness and sterility of their Principles consider'd , could well be expected . But I observed too , that the generality of those that busie themselves about Chymical Operations ; some because they practise Physick ; and others because they either much wanted , or greedily coveted money , aimed in their Trials but at the Preparation of good Medicines for the humane body , or to discover the ways of curing the Diseases or Imperfections of Metals , without referring their Trials to the advancement of Natural Philosophy in general ; of which most of the Alchymists seem to have been so incurious , that not onely they did not institute Experiments for that purpose , but overlookt and despis'd those undesign'd ones that occurr'd to them whilst they were prosecuting a preparation of a Medicine , or a Transmutation of Metals . The sense I had of this too general omission of the Chymists , tempted me sometimes to try , whether I could do any thing towards the repairing of it by handling Chymistry , not as a Physician or an Alchymist , but as a meer Naturalist , and so by applying Chymical Operations to Philosophical purposes . And in pursuance of these thoughts , I remember I drew up a Scheme of what I ventur'd to call a Chymia Philosophica , not out of any affectation of a splendid Title , but to intimate , that the Chymical Operations , there treated of , were not directed to the usual scopes of Physicians , or Transmuters of Metals , but partly to illustrate or confirm some Philosophical Theories by such Operations ; and partly to explicate those Operations by the help of such Theories . But before I had made any great progress in the pursuit of this design , the fatal Pestilence that raged in London , and in many other parts of England , in the years 1664 and 65 , obliging me among the rest to make several removes ; which put me upon taking new measures , and engaging me in other employments of my time , made me so long neglect the Papers I had drawn up , that at last I knew not where to finde them , ( though I hope they are not yet mislaid beyond recovery , ) which I was the less troubled at , because the great difficulties , to be met with in such an undertaking , did not a little discourage me , such a Task requiring as well as deserving a Person better furnished , than I had reason to think my self , with Abilities , Leisure , Chymical Experiments , and Conveniences , to try as many more as should appear needful . But yet to break the Ice for any that may hereafter think fit to set upon such a Work , or to shorten my own Labour , if I should see cause to resume it my self , I was content to throw in among my Notes about other Particular Qualities , some Experiments and Observations about some of those , that I have elsewhere call'd Chymical Qualities , because 't is chiefly by the Operations of Chymists , that men have been induced to take special notice of them . Of these Notes I have assigned to some Qualities more , and to some fewer , as either the nature or importance of the Subject seemed to require , or my Leisure and other Circumstances would permit . And though I have not here handled the Subjects they belonged to , as if I intended such a Chymia Philosophica as I lately mentioned , because my design did not make it necessary , but did perhaps make it impertinent for me to do so , yet in some of the larger Notes about Volatility and Fixtness , and especially about Precipitation , I have given some little Specimens of the Theorical part of a Philosophical Account of those Qualities or Operations , that I hope will not be wholly useless . I know , it may be objected , that I should have employed for Instances some more considerable Experiments , if not Arcana ; but though possibly I am not altogether unfurnished with such , yet aiming rather to promote Philosophy , than appear a Possessor of elaborate Processes , I declined several Experiments that required either more skill , or more time , or more expence than could be well expected from most Readers , and chose rather to employ such Experiments as may be more easily or cheaply tried , and , which is mainly to be consider'd , being more simple , are more clearly intelligible , and more fit to have Notions and Theories built upon them ; especially considering , that the Doctrine of Qualities being it self conversant about some of the Rudimental parts , if I may so call them , of Natural Philosophy , it seemed unfit to employ intricate Experiments , and whose Causes were liable to many disputes , to settle a Theory of them . In short , my design being to hold a Taper not so much to Chymists as to the Naturalists , 't was fit I should be less solicitous to gratifie the former than to inform the later . FINIS .