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"After the appearance of The Sceptical Chymist Aristotle's doctrine of the four elements as well as Paracelsus' theory of the three principia gradually passes into disuse."

The book's influence can be discerned in Nicholas Brady's reference to "jarring seeds" in his Ode to St. Cecilia (set by Henry Purcell in 1691, well before Daniel Bernoulli's kinetic theory):

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