Hypothesis Physica Nova on Superphysics

Theory of Concrete Motion

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A Hypothesis on the Phenomena of our Globe

Let there be assumed at the beginning:

a Solar Globe,
a Terrestrial Globe,
an intermediate space which is at rest.

This space we shall call aether.

The Creation

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¹¹ In the beginning**, from the surging and fusion of fluid through light or heat, innumerable bubbles were born, varying in magnitude and thickness.

For whenever subtle things attempt to break through dense things, and there is something that resists, they:

Gravity

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¹⁵ These bubbles, these glasses, are variously inserted, figured, and massed together to produce such a great apparatus of things, of which we shall soon speak in the origin of species.

Reflection and Refraction

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²¹ A specimen of this can be found in Reflection and Refraction.

It is in the mouths of all that the angle of incidence and the angle of reflection are equal, and experiments—both phoronomic (kinematic) and optical—favor this.

Levity

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²² If the phenomena of Huygens and Wren are discovered, the cause will be what I have said.

Because in this state of our globe, struck or projected things are carried away more by the air and aether than by their own impetus, just as a moved water carries away things swimming or lying in it.

Aerostatics

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²⁵ Aerostatics is the species of gravity that depends entirely on the apparatus of siphons, pumps, and baroscopes if Elater [elasticity/spring force] is added.

Whatever stupendous things are performed with exhausted and compressed air.

Colors

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³¹ Colors are remarkably illustrated by the experiment of the Prism, and the real assertions of the blind man left to posterity by that man of greatest diligence, Robert Boyle[cite: 1].

Magnetism

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^33-b Reactions are either:

Antipathic Motion

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36. Antipathic motion

(I speak of sense and appearance, for if you look at the interiors, there is in bodies neither antipathy nor sympathy) is reaction, by whose most subtle varieties most things in the nature of things are performed…[cite: 1]

Absolute Quintessence

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⁵⁰ From this now that absolute Quintessence or Trinity of the Paracelsians** is rendered very suspect.

For as concerning the inert parts—phlegm and dead earth—which consist of ordinary bubbles (phlegm of aqueous ones, dead earth of glassy ones), or of extraordinary ones that are too small, or however large yet few, or wrapped in ordinary ones, or flowing together, I shall repeat nothing; perhaps that third mercurial principle is now alkali, now volatile acid; add below section 60.

The Elastic Force

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⁵⁷ The most noble Boyle traces Elastic force back to certain “springs” restoring themselves.

I agree. However, I believe that even this restorative force of those springs must be sought from a higher principle from the circulation of the aether.

The Cohesion of Things

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⁵⁹ Not rarely the cohesion of things—at least a secondary one that arises from and presupposes another—can and indeed ought to arise from the gravity of the air. For it is established by experience that 2 planes can hardly be pulled apart if they fit together exactly, because the weight of the incumbent atmosphere must be overcome by the one who would lift it.

The Cohesion of Things

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⁶⁰ Even hardness, and the restoration of tense things, can be sought from:

the gravity of the atmosphere and
the elater [elastic power] of aether

Let us return to chemical principles and our “bubbles”.