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The heat-producing virtue is incorporeal and like the other earthly virtues, can be produced in receptive bodies, with the exception of water, by means of rubbing. After a period of time it enters into bodies (because it is not something introduced) and penetrates them, unless they are too thick.
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Von Guericke, O. (1994). The Heat-Producing Virtue. In: The New (So-Called) Magdeburg Experiments of Otto Von Guericke. Archives Internationales D’Histoire Des Idées / International Archives of the History of Ideas, vol 137. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2010-4_95
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