“And, to prevent mistakes, I must advertize you, that I now mean by elements, as those chymists that speak plainest do by their principles, certain primitive or simple, or perfectly unmingled bodies; which not being made of any other bodies, or of one another, are the ingredients of which all those called perfectly mixt bodies are immediately compounded, and into which they are ultimately resolved: now whether there be any such body to be constantly met with in all, and each, of those that are said to be elemented bodies, is the thing I now question.” MeanMadeSaidBodyScienceCertainSpeakSimpleMistakePrinciplesMetsElementsDefinitionsIngredientsPrimitive Book:The Sceptical Chymist Source: The Sceptical Chymist
“The best thing about the sciences is their philosophical ingredient, like life for an organic body. If one dephilosophizes the sciences, what remains left? Earth, air, and water.” IfsBodyEarthLeftWaterAirPhilosophicalRemainsBest ThingsIngredientsAir And Water Author:Novalis