Tracts consisting of observations about the saltness of the sea : an account of a statical hygroscope and its uses: together with an appendix about the force of the air's moisture: a fragment about the natural and preternatural state of bodies / By the Honourable Robert Boyle. To all which is premis'd a sceptical dialogue about the positive or privative nature of cold: with some experiments of Mr. Boyle's referr'd to in that discourse ; By a member of the Royal Society.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.

Contributor:

Smith, Samuel, active 1681-1703, bookseller.

Boyle Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Seawater--Early works to 1800.

Seawater.

Cold--Early works to 1800.

Cold.

Humidity--Early works to 1800.

Humidity.

Hygrometry--Early works to 1800.

Hygrometry.

Penn Provenance:

Hall, Hens. (autograph) (Boyle Collection copy)

Physical Description:

196 pages in various pagings ; 17 cm (8vo)

Edition:

The second edition.

Fingerprint:

athe g.u- chh- tibl (3) 1690 (A)

Place of Publication:

London : Sold by S. Smith ..., 1690.

Contents:

Of the positive or privative nature of cold, a sceptical dialogue ...

Two problems about cold, grounded on new experiments, and proposed in a letter to a friend: an attempt to manifest and measure the great expansive force of freezing water; a new experiment about the production of cold by the conflict of bodies appearing to make an ebullition

Observations and experiments about the saltness of the sea

The fourth section belonging to the tract formerly published under the title, Relations about the bottom of the sea

A paradox of the natural and preternatural state of bodies, especially of the air

A statical hygroscope proposed to be farther tryed, in a letter to H. Oldenburgh Esq. ...

A new experiment and other instances of the efficacy of the air's moisture.

Notes:

Signatures: A⁴ B-K⁸ L⁸(-L2) M⁸ N⁸(-N1).

Head-pieces.

Leaf A1 is blank.

Local Notes:

Boyle Collection copy is from the Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection, with a pictorial bookplate on front pastedown that reads "The Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection University of Pennsylvania."

Boyle Collection copy has an ownership inscription in brown ink on t.p. that reads "Hens Hall".

Cited in:

ESTC, R173037

Fulton, John F. Bibliography of the honourable Robert Boyle, 113A.

Wing, B4053A

OCLC:

3818388