Atoms and Subtle matter: Henry Power’s observations on plants in Experimental Philosophy

• Published in: Notes and records of the Royal Society of London Vol. 79; no. 1; pp. 121 - 134
• Main Author: Matei, Oana
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 02.04.2025

This paper examines Henry Power’s Experimental philosophy and suggests that Power’s observations of and experiments with plants were not used to reconcile Cartesian corpuscularianism with different approaches that stress the subtle character of matter. Instead, their purpose was rather to determine...