Corpuscles 947 corpuscular theory

I read a bit more about Boyle s corpuscular theory of matter. Boyle used his vacuum pump to test the possibility that there is a substance called ether that fills up the spaces between corpuscles of air, of the type described by M. Descartes... 

Robert Boyle and Isaac Newton, both strong adherents of alchemy, advanced a corpuscular theory of matter. It is worth remembering that, since they believed that lead could be transmuted to gold, there could be no uniquely gold or lead corpuscles. Their views were influenced by Gassendi. ... 

The corpuscular theory of light, expounded by Sir Isaac Newton, states that light is made up of very small corpuscles or streams of particles that are emitted from... 

The empirical character of Sennert s atomism reveals itself further in his refusal to speculate on the shapes, arrangements, motions, or other imperceptible characteristics of his corpuscles. Here again he follows Geber and the long tradition of alchemical corpuscular theory. The minuteness of the bits (or in the case of mercury, mistlike droplets) that first collect on the alembic during sublimation is evident to the eye, as is the smallness of the precipitated corpuscles of silver. The residue that is left at or near the bottom of the flask when many substances are sublimed does not usually have this fine character, but exists in the form of fused lumps or charred remains. Is there not, then, an obvious correlation... 

Lest the reader accuse me of uncharitability here, it is important to be clear about what exactly Boyle wishes to assert. His argument, in short, is that God first created matter as a sort of lump, and only after this divided it into corpuscles while also imparting motion to it This is more clearly spelled outin Boyle s contemporaneous Usefulness of Natural Philosophy, part i, essay 4 (printed in 1663 but composed by about 1660, in Hunter and Davis, Works, vol. 3, p. 253), where Boyle is both criticizing the atheistic implications of Epicurean atomism and defending his own corpuscular theory Indeed, that the various coalitions of Atoms, or at least small Particles... 

The corpuscularism of the Honorable Robert Boyle (1627-1691 CE) was based upon the theories of Descartes and Gassendi. He considered that matter was composed of corpuscles of different shapes, sizes, motion or rest, and solidity... 

In the Compton scattering we have therefore a typical example of a process in which radiation behaves like a corpuscle of well-defined energy (and momentum) an explanation by the wave theory of the experimental results which we have described seems absolutely impossible. On the other hand, interference phenomena are quite irreconcilable with the corpuscular view of radiation. Until a few years ago, to explain this contradiction in the theory of light seemed to be beyond the bounds of possibility. 

System Property The relationship between the energy-per-corpuscle and the number of corpuscles relies on the notion of corpuscular activity, notated introduced by the Formal Graph theory for standardization. Its dependence on the energy-per-corpuscle has an exponential shape... 

The proportionality factor D, is called the diffusivity (or diffusion coefficient) it is a characteristic of the corpuscle and of the medium. In the Formal Graph theory, this law applies to a space pole in the corpuscular energy variety. Naturally, this equation can be rewritten with global variables instead of localized ones as... 

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