- Boyle in his notion of Electrical
attraction was misled by the mechanical
philosophy.- As many electrical bodies
were glutinous - he conceived that they
emitted glutinous effluvia - which laid hold
of small particles & in their return to the
excited substance carried them back - an idea
scarcely worthy so excellent a philosopher -
|_but my Lord Bacon , had given the world
a dread of occult qualities & it was
in that age fashionable to explain every
thing after mechanical principles. -
- - The labours of a Contemporary of
Boyle , Otto de Guericke had a much
greather influence on the progress of
the Science. - |_This distinguished
personage ranks amongst the most
illustrious of inventors in the experimental
Arts & we owe to him two of the most
important instruments of investigation ever
presented to the world |public| - One by which