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 : 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.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.

Contributor:

Davis, Richard, active 1646-1688, printer.

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.

Chemistry--Early works to 1800.

Chemistry.

Physics--Early works to 1800.

Physics.

Pneumatics--Early works to 1800.

Pneumatics.

Hydrostatics--Early works to 1800.

Hydrostatics.

Genre:

Printed waste (Binding)

Penn Provenance:

Thurston, Joseph (inscription) (Boyle Collection copy)

Physical Description:

8 unnumbered pages, 142 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 17 pages, 13 unnumbered pages, 176 pages, 6 unnumbered pages, 19 pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 16 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 39 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 18 cm (8vo)

Other Title:

Tracts about flame and air

New experiments about explosions

New experiments of the positive or relative levity of bodies under water

New experiments about the pressure of the air's spring on bodies under water

New experiments about the differing pressure of heavy solids and fluids

Hydrostatical discourse

Fingerprint:

sex- ine- t.a- mabe (3) 1672 (R)

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for Richard Davis ..., MDCLXXII [1672]

Notes:

Signatures: [A]⁴ B-I⁸ K⁸(K1+(*)-(**)⁸ k-x⁸) L-O⁸ P².

The words "Of the positive ... solids and fluids" are bracketed together on title page, with "New experiments," running up at left.

The hydrostatical discourse is a reply to "Enchiridion metaphysicum" by Henry More.

The organization of the tracts is based upon the directions to the binder given on two advertisement leaves, (*)1 and k1. The first calls for quires (*) and (**) to be bound after leaf K1. The second calls for quires k-x⁸ to be bound before leaf K2.

"New experiments about explosions", "New experiments of the positive or relative levity of bodies under water", "New experiments about the pressure of the air's spring on bodies under water", "New experiments about the differeng pressure of heavy solids and fluids", and "An hydrostatical discourse" each have separate divisional title page and pagination; register is continuous.

Leaves [A]1, x7, and x8 are blank.

Local Notes:

Boyle Collection copy is from the Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection, with a pictorial bookplate on front free endpaper that reads "The Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection University of Pennsylvania."

Boyle Collection copy bound with gatherings k-x⁸ at end, as follows: [A]⁴ B-I⁸ K⁸(K1+(*)-(**)⁸) L-O⁸ P² k-x⁸.

Boyle Collection copy bound in full brown leather; boards blind-tooled with double-line fillet borders and center triple-line fillet panels with corner ornaments; four raised bands on spine; spine panels blind-tooled with double-line fillets; brief title stamped in gilt on a red leather label in second spine panel; gold-tooled cover edges; all edges speckled red.

Boyle Collection copy has a printed leaf from another copy of the same title used as binding waste for endpapers.

Boyle Collection copy has an ownership inscription of Joseph Thurston at head of front free endpaper ("Jo. Thurston").

Boyle Collection copy left board is partially detached from spine.

Boyle Collection copy has a printed, excised bookseller's description laid in.

Cited in:

ESTC, R10383

Fulton, John F. Bibliography of the honourable Robert Boyle, 101

Madan, 2920

Wing (2nd ed., 1994), B4060

OCLC:

63915322