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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"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 ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A32712.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 2, 2024.

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SECT. I.
ARTIC.
1 THe Clasp, or Ligament of this, to the prae∣cedent Chapter.
ibid.
2 The Authors Notion of the Rays of Light.
ibid.
3 A Parallelism betwixt a stream of Water ex∣silient from the Cock of a Cistern, and a Ray of Light emanent from its Lucid Fountain.
ibid▪
PRAECONSIDERABLES.
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4 Light distinguisht into Primary, Secondary, &c.
199
5 All Light Debilitated by Reflection: and why.
ibid.
6 An Example, sensibly demomonstrating the same.
200
7 That light is in perpetual Motion; accor∣ding to Aristotle.
ibid.
8 Light, why Corroborated, in some cases, and Debilitated in others, by Refraction.
201
COROLLARY. Why the Figure of the Sun, both rising and setting, appears rather Ellipti∣cal, than Sphaerical.
ibid.
9 PARADOX. That the proportion of So∣lary Rays reflected by the superior Aer, or Ae∣ther, toward the Earth, is so small, as not to be sensible.
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10 That every Lucid Body, as Lucid, doth emit its Rays Sphaerically: but, as Visible; Py∣ramidally.
ibid.
11 That Light is invisible in the pure medium.
203
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