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Full Idea
Boyle attacks an idea of powers, held by some modern schoolmen and chemists, that makes powers occult.
Gist of Idea
Boyle attacked a contemporary belief that powers were occult things
Source
report of Robert Boyle (The Origin of Forms and Qualities [1666]) by Peter Alexander - Ideas, Qualities and Corpuscles 03.3
Book Ref
Alexander,Peter: 'Ideas, Qualities and Corpuscles' [CUP 1985], p.72
A Reaction
[This involves Boyle's famous example of a key having the power to turn a lock] On p.86 Alexander says the 'occult' belief is in affinities, antipathies, attractions and repulsions. How did Boyle explain magnetism?