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Quotation from The Sceptical Chymist by Robert Boyle
“You but consider a piece of green-Wood burning in a Chimney, You will readily discern in the disbanded parts of it the four Elements, of which we teach It and other mixt bodies to be compos'd.”
The Sceptical Chymist, Physiological Considerations (1661 first edition, Project Gutenberg text)
The Aristotelian's chief experimental proof of the four elements, which Carneades goes on to question.
Citation: "You but consider a piece of green-Wood burning in a Chimney, You will readily discern in the disbanded parts of it the four Elements, of which we teach It and other mixt bodies to be compos'd." — Robert Boyle, The Sceptical Chymist, Physiological Considerations (1661 first edition, Project Gutenberg text). (id boyle-the-sceptical-chymist-q3)
Portrait: The Shannon Portrait of the Hon Robert Boyle, Johann Kerseboom, Public domain.
