Medicina hydrostatica, or, Hydrostaticks applyed to the materia medica : shewing, how by the weight that divers bodies, us'd in physick, have in water, one may discover whether they be genuine or adulterate : to which is subjoyn'd, a previous hydrostatical way of estimating ores / by the Honourable Robert Boyle, Fellow of the Royal Society.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.

Contributor:

Smith, Samuel, active 1681-1703.

Boyle Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Materia medica--Early works to 1800.

Materia medica.

Hydrostatics--Early works to 1800.

Hydrostatics.

Genre:

Early works.

Penn Provenance:

Browne, Charles Albert, 1870-1947 (bookplate) (Boyle Collection copy)

Norman, Hubert G. (autograph) (Boyle Collection copy)

Physical Description:

24 unnumbered pages, 217 pages, 9 unnumbered pages, 14 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations (engraving) ; 17 cm (8vo)

Other Title:

Experiments and observations relating to the materia medica

Medicina hydrostatica

Hydrostaticks applyed to the materia medica

Catalogue of the philosophical books and tracts, written by the Honourable Robert Boyle esq.

Fingerprint:

a,to l-to g.he Eqso (3) 1690 (A)

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for Samuel Smith ..., 1690.

Notes:

Signatures: A⁸(±A2) b⁴ B-P⁸ *⁸.

With a half-title on first leaf: "Experiments and observations, relating to the materia medica. Tome I."

Leaf A2 (original title page, lacking Boyle's name) is cancelled and replaced. Cf. Fulton 189.

With an engraved fronstis leaf between half-title and t.p.

Errata on p. [24], first group.

With "A catalogue of the philosophical books and tracts, written by the Honourable Robert Boyle esq. ...", on 14 p. at end, with a special t.p. leaf and seperate pagination.

Includes some bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Boyle Collection copies 1 and 2 are from the Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection, with pictorial bookplates on front pastedown (copy 1) and rear pastedwon (copy 2) that reads "The Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection University of Pennsylvania."

Boyle Collection copy 1 has an ownership inscription at head of front free endpaper in black ink ("Hubert G. Norman 1939.").

Boyle Collection copy 2 bound with: Boyle, Robert. Experimenta & observationes physicae / by the Honourable Robert Boyle, Fellow of the Royal Society. London : Printed for John Taylor ..., and John Wyat ..., MDCXCI [1691].

Boyle Collection copy 2 has the bookplate of Charles Albert Browne on front pastedown.

Boyle Collection copy 2 has an ms. list of the contents of the volume in brown ink on verso of front flyleaf.

Cited in:

ESTC, R17502

Fulton, John F. Bibliography of the honourable Robert Boyle, 189

Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), B3988

OCLC:

228723780