Robert Boyle - Chymista Scepticus Vel Dubia Et Paradoxa Chymico-physica Circa Spagyricorum Principia.

<p>Seconda e pi&ugrave; corretta edizione latina di &laquo;one of the great books in the history of scientific thought&raquo; (<span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Fulton </span>37), il primo trattato di Boyle sulla chimica. Cfr. anche <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Dibner </span>39; <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Duveen </span>93; <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Ferguson </span>122; <em>PMM </em>141&nbsp;(ed. 1661): &laquo;The Sceptical Chymist has achieved great fame as a prime example of his critical point of view [...].&nbsp;The importance of Boyle&rsquo;s book must be sought in his combination of chemistry with physics. His corpuscular theory, and Newton&rsquo;s modification of it, gradually led chemists towards an atomic view of matter&raquo;.</p>