Electricity & magnetism 1675-6.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.

Contributor:

Gunther, R. T. (Robert Theodore), 1869-1940.

Boyle Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Old Ashmolean Reprints ; VII.

Old Ashmolean Reprints ; VII

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Electricity--Early works to 1850.

Electricity.

Magnetism--Early works to 1800.

Magnetism.

Penn Provenance:

Taggart, W. T. (Walter Thomas) 1872-1938 (donor) (Boyle Collection copy)

Physical Description:

8 unnumbered pages, 38 pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 20 pages ; 18 cm.

Other Title:

Experiments and notes about the mechanical origine and production of electricity

Experiments and notes about the mechanical production of magnetism

Place of Publication:

Oxford : [Printed by John Johnson, printer to the University of Oxford], 1927.

Notes:

Preface signed: R. T. G. [i.e. Robert Theodore Gunther].

Reprint of: 'Experiments and notes about the mechanical origine or production of electricity'. By the Honourable Robert Boyle, London, Printed by E. Flesher, for R. Davis Bookseller in Oxford, 1675, and of: 'Experiments and notes about the mechanical production of magnetism'. By the Honourable Robert Boyle, London, Printed by E. Flesher, for R. Davis, 1676. With reproduction of original title pages.

Printer from p. [2] at end.

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, g. Dr. W. T. Taggart."

Boyle Collection copy has the autograph of Walter T. Taggart on verso of front free endpaper and on t.p. in blue ink.

OCLC:

706137326