Physiologia Epicuro-Gassendo-Charltoniana, or, A fabrick of science natural, upon the hypothesis of atoms founded by Epicurus repaired [by] Petrus Gassendus ; augmented [by] Walter Charleton ...

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Physiologia Epicuro-Gassendo-Charltoniana, or, A fabrick of science natural, upon the hypothesis of atoms founded by Epicurus repaired [by] Petrus Gassendus ; augmented [by] Walter Charleton ...
Author
Charleton, Walter, 1619-1707.
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London :: Printed by Tho. Newcomb for Thomas Heath ...,
1654.
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Science -- History -- Early works to 1800.
Physics -- Early works to 1800.
Atomism.
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SECT. II.
ARTIC.
1 A PARADOX. That there are no Co∣lours in the Dark.
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2 A familiar Experiment, attesting the Verity thereof.
ibid.
3 The Constancy of all Artificial Tinctures, de∣pendent

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on the constancy of Disposition in the superficial Particles of the Bodies that wear them.
187
4 That so generally magnified Distinction of Co∣lours into Inhaerent, and meerly Apparent; redargued of manifest Contradiction.
ibid.
5 The Emphatical, or Evanid Colours, created by Prisms; no less Real and Inhaerent, than the most Durable Tinctures.
188
6 COROLLARY. The Reasons of Empha∣tical Colours, appinged on Bodies objected, by a Prism.
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7 The true Difference of Emphatical and Du∣rable Colours, briefly stated.
ibid.
8 No Colour Formally inhaerent in objects; but only Materially, or Effectively: contrary to the constant Tenent of the Schools.
ibid
9 The same farther vindicated from Difficulty, by the tempestive Recognition of some praecedent Assumptions of the Atomists.
190
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