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New experiments physico-mechanical, touching the air.
Van Pelt - Microtext STC II Reel 707:11.
Mixed Availability
- Format:
- Microformat
- Author/Creator:
- Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.
- Series:
- Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 707:11.
- Standardized Title:
- New experiments physico-mechanical, touching the spring of the air, and its effects
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.
- Air--Early works to 1800.
- Air.
- Air-pumps--Early works to 1800.
- Air-pumps.
- Line, Francis, 1595-1675. Tractatus de corporum inseparabilitate.
- Line, Francis.
- Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679. Dialogus physicus.
- Hobbes, Thomas.
- Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691--Bibliography.
- Boyle, Robert.
- Genre:
- Bibliographies.
- Physical Description:
- 16 unnumbered pages, 203 pages, 12 unnumbered pages, 117 pages, 8 unnumbered pages, 102 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 2 leaves of plates (1 folded) ; 21 cm
- 35 mm
- monochrome
- service copy
- positive
- Edition:
- The third edition : whereunto is added a defence of the author's explication of the experiments, against the objections of Franciscus Linus and, Thomas Hobbs.
- Other Title:
- Defence of the doctrine touching the spring and weight of the air.
- Examen of Mr. T. Hobbs his Dialogus physicus de naturâ aëris.
- Place of Publication:
- [London] : [Printed by Miles Flesher for Richard Davis, bookseller in Oxford], [1682]
- Contents:
- New experiments physico-mechanical, touching the spring of the air, and its effects, made, for the most part, in a new pnuematical [sic] engine : written by way of letter to the Right Honorable Charles Lord Vicount of Dungarvan, eldest son to the Earl of Corke / by the Honorable Robert Boyle Esq.
- A defence of the doctrine touching the spring and weight of the air, propos'd by Mr. R. Boyle in his New physico-mechanical experiments, against the objections of Franciscus Linus : wherewith the objector's funicular hypothesis is also examin'd / by the author of those experiments
- An examen of Mr. T. Hobbs his Dialogus physicus de naturâ aëris, as far as it concerns Mr. Boyle's book of New experiments touching the spring of the air, &c. : with an appendix touching Mr. Hobbs's doctrine of fluidity and firmness / by the author of those experiments.
- Notes:
- Title taken from half-title. Each of the three works has special t. p. and separate paging; the third has separate signatures.
- Contains the first formulation of Boyle's law.
- "A catalogue of all the philosophical works published by our author": p. [1]-[2] at end.
- Edited by Robert Sharrock.
- Reproduction of original in Huntington Library.
- Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms International, 1977. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 707:11).
- Cited in:
- Wing B4000 (New experiments)
- Wing B3942 (A defence of the doctrine)
- Arber's Term cat. II 7
- Fulton, J. Bibl. of Robert Boyle 15
- Contains:
- Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691. Defence of the doctrine touching the spring and weight of the air.
- Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691. Examen of Mr. T. Hobbes his Dialogus physicus de naturâ aëris.
- OCLC:
- 12760915
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