Some considerations touching the usefulnesse of experimental naturall philosophy. Propos'd in familiar discourses to a friend, by way of invitation to the study of it / [Anon].

  • Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.
Date:
1663
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    they Teen him torturing Minerals and Metals in the more toilfome Anatomy of Fire. Now if it be a dilhonourable Crimination to an Age that it hath brought out no Perfons who make it their great Endeavour He quid profuturum ftculis lateat: and if the Difcovery of one or two perfons ofthis Kind beenough to expiate for, and takeoff the Dishonour of the Proletarian Lazinefle and Luxury of the Reft, 1 think 1 may juftly efteem that the exhibiting to the World the Hiftory of the Stu- dyes of the Honourable Author of this Piece may ferve to be the Apology and Defence of our Age againft fuch Cenfures as that wherewith the new¬ ly cited Satyyift ftained his own Time. And this was one great Rcafon that hath made me very forward to promote the Publication or This, and diverfe other Writings of the fame Noble Author. For were there only Tokens of Endea¬ vour in Theo^the proof of This Endeavour (even without Attainment) ought to wipe offall Imputa¬ tions ofthis nature. But this Motive(though I do ac¬ count that by exhibiting this Expiation 1 dofome- what oblige the Age, whofe Honour is thereby de¬ fended, yet) was far from being the moft great and forcible. For the Excellence of the W orks them- I a Ifrv A