On the Radical Dissolution of Bodies
In particular Metals
Presentation of the general conceptions of fire, heat and light
The objective cause of the impression known as light is the luminous substance.
The objective cause of the impression known as heat is, only, matter of heat.
The objective cause of the phenomenon known as fire is never the matter of fire.
These three causes of the three phenomena of Light, Heat and Fire, can be considered, either in their concrete manifestation or in their static state.
In the first case, we designate this production under the name of sensible light, sensible heat, sensible fire, or, with other words manifested or developed light (entwickeltes Licht), manifested heat, manifested fire.
In the second state: latent light, latent heat or latent fire. Or again, unmanifested light, unmanifested heat, unmanifested fire.
One understands under the name of absolute luminous substance, any body which, independent of sensible or latent light, is an absolute substance serving as a basis for manifestation. The absolute caloric substance is any body which, independent of sensible or latent heat, serves as the real basis for heat.
The absolute substance of fire is any body which, independent of sensible and latent fire, is necessary as the real substratum of fire.
Precisely, the question: "Do absolute light, heat and igneous substance exist?" Is the one that most interests today's researchers; now, the object of my work is to establish the existence of these absolute substances.
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