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Quotation from The Sceptical Chymist by Robert Boyle
“It seems not absurd to conceive that at the first Production of mixt Bodies, the Universal Matter whereof they among other Parts of the Universe consisted, was actually divided into little Particles of several sizes and shapes variously mov'd.”
The Sceptical Chymist, The First Part, Proposition I (1661 first edition, Project Gutenberg text)
The first of the corpuscular propositions Carneades concedes before he begins his objections.
Citation: "It seems not absurd to conceive that at the first Production of mixt Bodies, the Universal Matter whereof they among other Parts of the Universe consisted, was actually divided into little Particles of several sizes and shapes variously mov'd." — Robert Boyle, The Sceptical Chymist, The First Part, Proposition I (1661 first edition, Project Gutenberg text). (id boyle-the-sceptical-chymist-q4)
Portrait: The Shannon Portrait of the Hon Robert Boyle, Johann Kerseboom, Public domain.
