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The Sceptical Chymist is a cornerstone book in the history of chemistry.

Seven militia, Sacramundi and one chymist came out of Suroch.

He had not been at Oxford for nothing, nor talked to no account with an ancient chymist and astrologer in Paris.

Robert Boyle's The Sceptical Chymist is published in London.

By 1661 Robert Boyle had sorted out two important distinctions, putting them into his book The Sceptical Chymist.

He is also credited for his landmark publication The Sceptical Chymist, where he attempts to develop an atomic theory of matter.

Robert Boyle publishes The Sceptical Chymist, a treatise on the distinction between chemistry and alchemy.

Robert Boyle, The Sceptical Chymist (1661) - contains account of distillation of wood alcohol.

Chemistry [1661], Boyle writes his classic chemistry text The Sceptical Chymist.

In The Sceptical Chymist (1661), Boyle demonstrates problems that arise from chemistry, and offers up atomism as a possible explanation.

In his book, The Skeptical Chymist, Boyle attacked Paracelsus and the natural philosophy of Aristotle, which was taught at universities.

The Sceptical Chymist is referenced in QuickSilver (a novel by Neal Stephenson)

This distinction begins to emerge when a clear differentiation was made between chemistry and alchemy by Robert Boyle in his work The Sceptical Chymist (1661).

Robert Boyle publishes The Sceptical Chymist in London, in which he developed the idea of elements and 'corpuscles' (atoms).

Knaresborough is the site of Ye Oldest Chymist Shoppe in England, opened in 1720 and the Courthouse Museum in the castle grounds.

In his work, The Sceptical Chymist (1661) Boyle abandoned the Aristotelian ideas of the classical elements-earth, water, air, and fire in favor of corpuscularianism.

The Sceptical Chymist is well written, enlivened with touches of humour, as when the alchemists are compared with "the Navigators of Solomon's Tarshish Fleet, who brought home .

The Sales Conference: The Second of Richardsons' Newcastle Chapbooks, telling how the chairman and the chief chymist invented a bronze blue ink which tasted ... events, transactions and proceedings (1958)

In 1661, natural philosopher Robert Boyle published The Sceptical Chymist in which he argued that matter was composed of various combinations of different "corpuscules" or atoms, rather than the classical elements of air, earth, fire and water.

The chief value of The Sceptical Chymist, aside from its main message, was the wealth of chemical experiment that showed the chemist how to employ standard terms and nomenclature in chemical explanation and also presented new chemical fact.

In 1689 Packe brought out in goodly folio a translation of the "Works of the highly experienced and famous chymist, John Rudolph Glauber", accompanied by the original copper plates, which he had purchased at Amsterdam.

In the form of a dialogue, the Sceptical Chymist presented Boyle's hypothesis that matter consisted of atoms and clusters of atoms in motion and that every phenomenon was the result of collisions of particles in motion.

His first book on the subject was The Sceptical Chymist, published in 1661, in which he criticised the "experiments whereby vulgar Spagyrists are wont to endeavour to evince their Salt, Sulphur and Mercury to be the true Principles of Things."