Micrographia - Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon by Robert Hooke
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come from the bottom of a Sea very remote from those parts, and where the
Tides are much differing from those of the approximate shores. A Fourth, lies in _Westmorland_, near the River _Leder_; _Qui instar Euripi sæpius in die reciprocantibus undis fluit & refluit_, which ebbs and flows many times a day. This may proceed from its being supplyed from many Channels, coming from several parts of the Sea, lying sufficiently distant asunder to have the times of High-water differing enough one from the other; so as that whensoever it shall be High water over any of those places, where these Channels begin, it shall likewise be so in the Well; but this is but a supposition. A Seventh _Query_ was, Whether the _dissolution_ or mixing of several bodies, whether fluid or solid, with saline or other Liquors, might not partly be attributed to this Principle of the congruity of those bodies and their dissolvents? As of Salt in Water, Metals in several _Menstruums_, Unctuous Gums in Oyls, the mixing of Wine and Water, &c. And whether _precipitation_ be not partly made from the same Principle of Incongruity? I say _partly_, because there are in some Dissolutions, some other Causes concurrent. I shall lastly make a much more seemingly strange and unlikely _Query_; and that is, Whether this Principle, well examined and explained, may not be found a _co-efficient_ in the most considerable Operations of Nature? As in those of _Heat_, and _Light_ consequently of _Rarefaction_ and _Condensation_, _Hardness_, and _Fluidness_, _Perspicuity_ and _Opacousness_, _Refractions_ and _Colours. &c._ Nay, I know not whether there may be many things done in Nature, in which this may not (be said to) have a Finger? This I have in some other passages of this Treatise further enquired into and shewn, that as well _Light_ as _Heat_ may be caused by _corrosion_, which is applicable to _congruity_, and consequently all the |
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