On the properties of matter, the principles of chemistry, and the nature and construction of aeriform fluids, or gases / [E. Peart].

  • Peart, E. (Edward), 1756?-1824
Date:
1792
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Credit: On the properties of matter, the principles of chemistry, and the nature and construction of aeriform fluids, or gases / [E. Peart]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    cles of matter, what occafion have wfe to fuppofe that therS is any fuch thing as matter ?—take away the particles of matter, leave but the repul - five fpheres, and our fenfations and ideas of foli- dity and refiftance, will be juft the fame. If thofe ideas are produced by immaterial repul- five fpheres, what proof have we—what right have we to fay, that they have centres of folid mat¬ ter ? Would it not be the moft concife and philo- fophical, at once, openly, to aftert, that, as our ideas of folidity and refiftance arife from repulfive powers, we have no proof that matter is contain¬ ed within thofe fpheres, and, therefore, there is not one particle of matter in the univerfe? This immaterial fphere of repulfive power acting upon other immaterial fpheres of repulfive power, metaphyfically confidered, gives indeed the ideas of folidity and refiftance ; and fo does one folid particle of matter acting againft ano¬ ther : and, as the idea of folid matter, appears to