Referencias:

• Joachim, H.H., Aristotle's conception of chemical combination (1903) J. Philology, 29, p. 72
• Partington, J.R., (1970) A history of chemistry, 1. , London, chap. 4
• Van Meisen, A.G., (1960) From atomos to atom, pp. 30-44. , New York
• Dijksterhuis, E.J., (1961) The mechanisation of the world picture, 22-4, pp. 200-204. , Oxford
• Stephanides, M., Une théorie chimique d'Aristote. Contact et affinité (1924) La Rev. Scientifique, 62, p. 626
• order not to burden this essay unnecessarily with footnotes, Aristotelian texts are cited in the body of the paper using the following abbreviations: DC (De caelo), GC (De generatione et corruptione), DA (De anima), PA (De partibus animalium), Mt (Metaphysica), Mtg (Meteorologica), DS (De sensu). Unless otherwise noted, all texts are translated from the author's own Spanish version from the Greek. The author acknowledges the valuable help of Prof. Azucena A. Fraboschi in discussing Greek texts; Taton, R., (1957) Histoire generale des sciences, 1. , livre 1: "La science hellène" (P.H. Michael), Paris
• Stillman, M., (1960) The story of alchemy and early chemistry, p. 125. , New York
• Weeks, M.E., (1960) The discovery of elements, p. 4. , Easton; etc
• PA, 646 a 13; Boyle, R., (1772) The sceptical chymist, in The Works, 1, p. 562. , Thomas Birch, London, (reprod. Hildesheim, 1965)
• Partington, J.R., (1961) A history of chemistry, 2, p. 501. , London, "Boyle's definition is practically identical with the Stoic doctrine", and nothing more
• Lavoisier, A.L., (1965) Elements of chemistry, p. XXIV. , transl. R. Kerr, 1790 (reprod. New York)
• All we dare venture to affirm of any substance is, that it must be considered as simple in the present state of our knowledge, and so far as chemical analysis has hitherto been able to show; Lavoisier, A.L., (1965) Elements of chemistry, p. 177. , transl. R. Kerr, 1790 (reprod. New York)
• But note that Boyle did not venture to indicate which were true elements; and Lavoisier wound up including heat and light in his Table of Simple Substances; That this distinction of Aristotle's signifies an important advance is made very clear in Paneth's article of 1931, which it was still necessary to reprint in 1962 given the scarcity of studies about this subject; Paneth, F.A., The epistemological status of the chemical concept of element (1962) British J. Philos. Science, 13 (1), p. 144
• Thomas, S., In II De generatione et corruptione, , lectio 4, no. 210 (ed. Marietti)
• Mauro, S., (1886) Aristotelis Opera Omnia, 3, p. 454. , Paris, is not correct when he explains "Elementa quae in una qualitate conveniunt, dicuntur symbola", because it is not the elements that are so denominated here, but rather the qualities that in a given case may be common to two elements: "Qualitates symbola vocamus aes, in quibus duo elementa in se conveniunt"
• Toledo, F., (1602) Comm, in Lib. de gen. et corr. Aristotelis, p. 7. , Venetiis, L. II, c, 3
• "That (the exhalation) which rises from the moisture contained in the earth and on its surface (due to water and air) is vapour (àr/ut Sa) while that rising from the earth itself, which is dry, is like smoke (ica7rva"S7/)" (Mtg, 341 b 9); ". but fumid (exhalation) is composed of Air and Earth." (DC, 443 a 27); Aristoteles y la formacion de minerales y metales (1973) Anuario Humanitas, 14, p. 218. , (Universidad de Nuevo León, México)
• Tracy, T.J., (1969) Physiological doctrine and the doctrine of the mean in Plato and Aristotle, , The Hague-Paris
• This much debated and ill understood theme of the "virtual state" will be considered in another article; Joachim, H.H., Aristotle's conception of chemical combination (1903) J. Philology, 29, p. 72
• Ogle, W., De Partibus animalium, 5. , W. D. Ross (ed.) "The works of Aristotle trans. into English", note to 646 a 18: "But though Aristotle thus distinguished chemical combination from mechanical mixture, he had no notion of preferential affinities, nor, of course, of combination in definite proportions. The elementary bodies combined with each other with perfect indifference, and in any chance proportions. There was thus no such thing as definite composition, and consequently no such thing as definite properties, in substances."
• Aristotle, De anima, , 408 a 14
• Dalton, J., (1803) A new system of chemical philosophy, 1, p. 143. , Manchester, "Therefore we may conclude that the ultimate particles of all homogenous bodies are perfectly alike in weight, figure, etc. In other words, every particle of water is like every other particle of water
• ". of considerable extent" (Joachim, Aristotle: De generatione et corruptione, "The Works of Aristotle transl. into English"); ". de grande étendue"; Tricot, J., (1951) Aristote: De la génêration et de la corruption, , Paris, 2a
• has considerable extention; Foster, E.S., (1965) Aristotle on coming-to-be and passing-away, , Loeb Class. Lib., London
• Joachim, H.H., (1922) Aristotle on coming-to-be and passing-away, p. 244. , A revised text with intr. and comm., Oxford
• Mugler, C., (1966) Aristote, De la génêration et de la corruption, , texte établi et traduit, Paris, ". mais ce millieu est multiple."
• Tracy, T.J., (1969) Physiological doctrine and the doctrine of the mean in Plato and Aristotle, (14), pp. 172-173. , The Hague-Paris
• This mean is not the same for all compounds but is of considerable extent; Seek, G.A., Ueber die Elemente in der Kosmologie des Aristoteles. Untersuchungen zu 'De generatione et corruptione and 'De caelo' (1954) München, p. 54. , vid. especially
• Verdenius, W.J., Waszink, J.H., (1966) Aristotle on coming-to-be and passing-away. Some comments, p. 65. , Leiden, The "local sense" they support by reference to, e.g., a Cat., 14a 3-4, and De anima, 424 a 4. To these passages we can add Ethica Nie., 1106 a 26: "In everything that is continuous and divisible it is possible to take the more, the less, or the equal, and that either in terms of the thing itself or relatively to us; and the equal is an intermediate between excess and defect. By the intermediate in the object I mean that which is equidistant from each of the extremes." But it is our opinion that this is not properly applied here as it is really more qualitative in intention
• For Alexander: ". a body is formed not only according to the substrate but as well to the quality; that body is some whole in potency, and not in full actuality any of the bodies which have entered into combination in the sense that there exist not in actuality any of the combined bodies as they have annuled themselves through the activity of each"; Alexander, (1891) De mixtione, 2. , I. Brun in Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca, Berolini

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