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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—C

Corpuscular Philosophy

promulgated by Robert Boyle. It accounts for all natural phenomena by the position and motion of corpuscles. (See Atomic Philosophy.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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