With regard to the celestial heat making bodies light, Scaliger very properly objects that the heavens, which abound in this heat, as being the source of it, must be light (feut leger) and consequently univocal (univoque) with the other bodies, which is absurd.

— John Rey Art. XI. A Translation of Rey's Essays on the Calcination of Metals, &c (1822)

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