Tracts written by the Honourable Robert Boyle : containing new experiments touching, the relation betwixt flame and air : and about explosions : an hydrostatical discourse occasion'd by some objections of Dr. Henry More against some explications of new experiments made by the author of these tracts : to which is annex't, an Hydrostatical letter, dilucidating an experiment about a way of weighing water in water ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.

Contributor:

Davis, Richard, active 1646-1688.

Boyle Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

More, Henry, 1614-1687. Enchiridion metaphysicum.

More, Henry.

Sinclair, George, -1696. Hydrostaticks.

Sinclair, George.

Chemistry--Early works to 1800.

Chemistry.

Physical Description:

444 pages in various pagings ; 18 cm (8vo)

Fingerprint:

m.er ine- t.a- mabe (3) 1673 (R)

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for Richard Davis ..., MDCLXXIII [1673]

Notes:

Signatures: [A]⁴ B-I⁸ K1 ⁽*⁾-2⁽*⁾⁸ K2-8 L-O⁸ P² k-x⁸.

"Merely a reissue [of the 1672 edition] with cancel title-page of altered date."--Fulton p. 71

According to Fulton on p. 71, the book was printed in London and published in Oxford.

According to Fulton, there is a great deal of variability of ordering the treatises in different copies. The "advertisement" on the recto of leaf *1 (p. [131]) says gatherings *-2*⁸ should be placed after p. 130 (leaf K1 verso); the one on the verso of leaf k1 says to put gatherings k-x⁸ before leaf K2, "but in most copies which I have seen these gatherings are bound in at the end."--Cf. Fulton no. 101.

Catchword on the verso of leaf K1 is "New," fitting the title on K2.

Leaf A1 is blank.

Tracts have separate part-titles and pagination.

The "Hydrostatical letter," following the "Hydrostatical discourse," is an answer to exceptions made by George Sinclair in his "Hydrostaticks" to an experiment of the author: "A way of weighing water in water."

"New experiments: Of the positive or relative levity of bodies under water. Of the air's spring on bodies under water. About the differing pressure of heavy solids and fluids."--from t.p.

Includes bibliographical references.

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 gatherings k-x bound after leaf G2; with registration as follows: [A]⁴ B-F⁸ G1-2 k-x⁸ G2-8 H-I⁸ K1 ⁽*⁾-2⁽*⁾⁸ K2-8 L-O⁸ P².

Boyle Collection copy front free endpaper mutilated; front and rear free endpapers have brown ink stains.

Cited in:

ESTC, R29898

Fulton, John F. Bibliography of the honourable Robert Boyle, 102

Wing, B4061

OCLC:

849522723