SECT. II.
ARTIC.
- 1 THe Link connecting this Section to the for∣mer.
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- 2 That Cold is no Privation of Heat; but a Real and Positive Quality: demonstrated.
- ibid.
- 3 That the adaequate Notion of Cold, ought to be desume•• from its General Effect, viz. the Congreg••tion and Compaction of bodies.
- 307
- 4 Cold, no Immaterial; but a Substantial Qua∣lity.
- ibid.
- 5 Gassendus conjectural Assignation, of a Te∣trahedical Figure to the Atoms of cold; assert∣ed by sundry weighty considerations.
- ibid
- 6 Cold, not Essential to Earth, Water, nor Aer.
- 309
- 7 But to some Special Concretions, for the most part, consisting of Frigorifick Atoms.
- 312
- 8 Water▪ the chief Antagonist to Fire; not in respect of its Accidental Frigidity, but Essen∣tial Humidity: and that the Aer hath a juster title to the Principality of Cold, than either Water, or Earth.
- 313
- 9 PROBLEM: Why the breath of a man doth Warm, when expired with the mouth wide open; and Cool, when efflated with the mouth con∣tracted.
- ibid.
- 10 Three CONSECTARIES from the pre∣mises.
- 314