A Defense of the Introduction to a True and Unheard-of Physics

...think The syllable "ratus" completes the word arbitratus (judged/thought) from the previous page.. Indeed, I marvel at the childish wit of the Anonymous author, since the example and simile brought forward here concerning the Generation of a Human is entirely inept. For the separation of Principles In this context, "Principles" refers to the fundamental components of matter, such as Salt, Sulfur, and Mercury in alchemical theory. and the Generation of a Human do not agree in their third point A logical term referring to the "tertium comparationis," the specific quality that two things being compared are supposed to share.. Who is there who would not know that to separate one whole into three parts, such that nothing remains left over, is something quite different from producing and generating a most subtle seed from the most subtle Essence of some whole? In the latter case, the generator remains uncorrupted and unchanged; who would not conclude this? Therefore, it is one thing to be begotten, and quite another to be separated.

I have no need to add that, at the time when the seed is separated from a Human through venereal motion original: motum venereum; a formal or medical way of referring to sexual intercourse., the Seed cannot yet be called a Human; nor can the Seed of a Plant be called a Plant at the time it is sown. Even a peasant recognizes the difference between the Seed and that which is produced or begotten from it, and would assert that both a Human and a Plant are made from their Seed only over a long period of time.

§. 6. That Fire exists in stones, iron, Steel, etc., and is proven by them; Fire in the Elemen-