The Introduction.
THE Ingenious Author of this Treatise has herein laid a great many Experiments and Obser∣vations together, in order to prove
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THE Ingenious Author of this Treatise has herein laid a great many Experiments and Obser∣vations together, in order to prove
that Water is the only first Material Principle of Natural Bodies; and that all the other pretended Hypostatical Principles are ultimate and reducible into mere Elementary Water. Where∣fore to give a brief and perspicuous account of his Reasonings upon this Subject, he has thought it expedient to reduce them to the following Propositions.