One of the aboriginal to altercate the achievability of an complete basal temperature was Robert Boyle. His 1665 New Experiments and Observations affecting Cold, articulate the altercation accepted as the primum frigidum. The abstraction was able-bodied accepted amid naturalists of the time. Some arguable an complete minimum temperature occurred aural apple (as one of the four alleged 'elements'), others aural water, others air, and some added afresh aural nitre.4 But all of them seemed to accede that, "There is some anatomy or added that is of its own attributes chiefly algid and by accord of which all added bodies access that quality."5
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