The aerial noctiluca, or, Some new phoenomena, and a process of a factitious self-shining substance : imparted in a letter to a friend living in the country / by the Honourable Robert Boyle ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.

Contributor:

Snowden, Thomas, printer.

Ranew, Nathaniel, active 1663-1694, bookseller.

Boyle Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Phosphorus--Early works to 1800.

Phosphorus.

Chemistry--Early works to 1800.

Chemistry.

Genre:

Early works.

Physical Description:

8 unnumbered pages, 109 pages, 3 unnumbered pages ; 18 cm (8vo)

Other Title:

Aerial noctiluca

Some new phoenomena and a process of a factitious self-shining substance

Fingerprint:

s,d: sIe. a-i- thco (3) 1680 (A)

Place of Publication:

London : Printed by Tho. Snowden, and are to be sold by Nath. Ranew ..., 1680.

Notes:

Signatures: *⁴ B-H⁸ (last leaf is blank).

Often found bound with Boyle's New experiments and observations made upon the icy noctiluca. London, 1681/2. Cf. Fulton, 138 and 139.

Title with single-ruled border.

Errata on p. [7].

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 final blank leaf wanting.

Boyle Collection copy bound with: Boyle, Robert. New experiments, and observations, made upon the icy noctiluca / by the Honourable Robert Boyle ... London : Printed by R.E. for B. Tooke ..., 1681/2.

Cited in:

ESTC, R22714

Fulton, John F. Bibliography of the honourable Robert Boyle, 138

Wing (2nd ed., 1994) B3925

OCLC:

7746958