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Roberti Boyle nobilis Angli tractatus de Cosmicis rerum qualitatibus. Cosmicis suspicionibus. Temperie subterranearum regionum. Temperie submarinarum regionum. Fundo maris : Quibus praemittitur Introductio ad historiam qualitarum particularium : Accedit denique Tractatus de absoluta quiete in corporibus / omnia ex Anglicâ in Latinam linguam conversi.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.
- Standardized Title:
- Tracts about the cosmical qualities of things. Latin
- Language:
- English
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Science--Early works to 1800.
- Science.
- Penn Provenance:
- Taggart, W. T. (Walter Thomas) 1872-1938 (donor) (Boyle Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 12 unnumbered pages, 60, 40, 42, 64, 30, 24 pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 57, that is, 58 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 14 cm (12mo)
- Other Title:
- Tractatus de cosmicis rerum qualitatibus
- Fingerprint:
- t.to s.us isx- tiva (3) 1671 (A)
- Place of Publication:
- Amstelodami : Apud Johannem Janssonium ..., Anno 1671.
- Notes:
- Signatures: )(⁶ A-K¹² L-M⁶ ; N¹² b¹² c⁶ (last leaf blank).
- Translation of: Tracts written by the Honourable Robert Boyle. About the cosmicall qualities of things ...
- Each section separately paginated.
- Title page in red and black.
- Head- and tail-pieces; factotum initials.
- Errata on p. [1-3] of 8th sequence.
- 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 bound in full parchment; all edges speckled red.
- Boyle Collection bound with: Boyle, Robert. Tractatus scripti à Roberto Boyle nobili Anglo, è Societate Regiâ, ubi. Londini : Impensis Henrici Herringman ..., MDCLXXI [1671].
- Boyle Collection copy has Tractatus scripti à Roberto Boyle nobili Anglo, è Societate Regiâ, ubi Mira Aeris bound in before leaf N1. Fulton reports other copies bound this way. Cf. Fulton no. 87.
- Boyle Collection copy has ms. bibliographic notes in pencil on rear pastedown.
- Cited in:
- Fulton, John F. Bibliography of the honourable Robert Boyle, 87
- OCLC:
- 9266183
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