corpuscularian

Boyle was a corpuscularian, a term he employed to paper over the differences between believers in a vacuum, and believers in a plenum, given that both of them agreed that the explanation of natural occurrences should be solely in terms of particles of matter, their motion and interaction.

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Boyle, a champion of both the corpuscularian doctrine and the Baconian method of natural history, preferred to report the results of his experiments, including negative results, and frequently lamented the fact that we lacked "histories"

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As a corpuscularian he believed that transmutation was physically possible.

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Moreover, experiments were exactly what he was interested in, he had a certain missionary zeal in spreading the corpuscularian gospel, but he was not himself interested in detailed system building, [1] a fact that was commonly noted.

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I have here instanced in the corpuscularian Hypothesis, as that which is thought to go farthest in an intelligible Explication of the Qualities of Bodies; and I fear the Weakness of humane Understanding is scarce able to substitute another, which will afford us a fuller and clearer discovery of the necessary Connexion, and

Locke's Philosophy of Science Kochiras, Hylarie 2009

Even a metaphysical non-corpuscularian such as Leibniz agreed with Boyle in practical terms.

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The material entities that interact in Descartes 'physics come in distinct units or corpuscles (see Section 7), which explains the “corpuscularian” title often attributed to his mechanical system, but these corpuscles are not indivisible.

Descartes' Physics Slowik, Edward 2009

Boyle believed that chemical experiments could demonstrate the truth of the corpuscularian philosophy.

Boyle, Robert 2008

He presented a corpuscularian basis for his physics, which denied the atoms-and-void theory of ancient atomism and affirmed that all bodies are composed from one type of matter, which is infinitely divisible

René Descartes Hatfield, Gary 2008

While the term "substance," meaning the indestructible stuff of the universe, was retained by Descartes in his discussions of res extensa, the mechanical philosophers were committed to a corpuscularian theory in which objects were temporary aggregates of solid, indestructible particles with various figures and motions, and all change occurred through their collisions, entanglings, and so on.

Kant and Leibniz Wilson, Catherine 2008