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Quotation from The Sceptical Chymist by Robert Boyle
“so that 164 pound of the Roots, Wood, and Bark, which Constituted the Tree, seem to have Sprung from the Water.”
The Sceptical Chymist, The Second Part (1661 first edition, Project Gutenberg text)
Carneades reports van Helmont's five-year willow experiment to argue that fire analysis may produce substances that were not originally in a body.
Citation: "so that 164 pound of the Roots, Wood, and Bark, which Constituted the Tree, seem to have Sprung from the Water." — Robert Boyle, The Sceptical Chymist, The Second Part (1661 first edition, Project Gutenberg text). (id boyle-the-sceptical-chymist-q5)
Portrait: The Shannon Portrait of the Hon Robert Boyle, Johann Kerseboom, Public domain.
