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Experiments and considerations touching colours. First occasionally written, among some other essays, to a friend; and now suffer'd to come abroad as the beginning of an experimental history of colours.
LIBRA QC495 .B612 1664
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.
- Series:
- Sources of science
- The Sources of science.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Color--Early works to 1800.
- Color.
- Colors--Early works to 1800.
- Colors.
- Physical Description:
- xxvi pages, 40 unnumbered pages, 423 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
- Edition:
- A facsimile of the 1664 edition, with a new introduction by Marie Boas Hall.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Johnson Reprint Corp., 1964.
- Notes:
- Original t.p. reads: Experiments and consdierations touching colours. First occasionally written, among some other essays, to a friend; and now suffer'd to come abroad as the beginning of an experimental history of colours. By the Honourable Robert Boyle ... London, Printed for Henry Herringman at the Anchor in the Lower walk of the New-Exchange. MDCLXIV.
- "A short account of some observations made by Mr. Boyle about a diamond that shines in the dark" (p. [389]-423) has special t.p.
- "Bibliographical note": page xxvi.
- OCLC:
- 690711
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