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An AccQtnpt ef feme B&ol^f. 
I, OfthVSEFVLNESS of £XPEJ{lMEl^TAL fJA- 
IVRJL PHILOSOPHY, the Second Tome by the Ho^ 
nsurable Robert Boyle Efq^ Fellow of the Society* 
Oxford 167U in 4^ 
THis iHuftrious Author, in purfuance of his d'^ fign, 
b-^gun in the FirfiTome o( \h\% Work Cpublilhed 
mat y years fince) which is to manifeft, that Experimental 
Philofophy is conducive to improve theQnderftanding and 
CO mcrciile the Power of Man, proceeds in this Second Tome 
to deliver Six very I iiftrudive and Ufeful Ejjays^ 
The Firjlof which contains fome General Confidera<- 
Cions about the Means, whereby Experimental Philofophy 
may become Advantagious to Human Ltfe; not only by 
bringing improvements both to the Trades that mifiifter Co 
theNt'ceffitiesof Mankind, and to thofe that ferve for 
Mans Accommodation and Delight ; but alfo by introdu- 
cing Nerv ones, partly fuch as are altogether nen>ly invented^ 
and partly fuch as are unknown in the place, where the Na- 
curalift brings them in requeft. And not only (o, but it Ihews 
further^that there is not any one Profeflion or Condition of 
Men:(perhaps not any iiogle perfon of Mankind) that rnay 
not be fome way or other advantaged or accommodated^ 
if all theTruths difcoverable by Natural Philofophy^and the 
Applications that might be made of them, were known to 
the Perfons concerned in them : Intimating withal) ths 
Caufes of Barrennefs, that have hitherto kept Phyficks 
from being confiderably UfefuU fuch as are, M^?«yfalfe 
and truitlefs Dodtrines of the Schools i Prejudices^ by 
which men have been hitherto impos'd on about Subftans 
tial Forms, and the Eflential difference betwixt Natural and 
Artificial fhingSj&C; a too plaufibledefpondency ; a wane 
of belief that Phyficks much concerned Mens Interefts ^^^ 
rvant of encourngrment, of Curiofity, of a Method of en- 
C|uirii g and Experimenting^ of Mathematicks and Me- 
chanicks 5 of afTociated endeavours^andthe like. 
The 
