Tractatus scripti à Domino Roberto Boyle, Nobili Anglo, è Societate Regia : I. Mira aëris (etiam citra calorem) rarefactio detecta ; II. Observata nova circa durationem virtutis elasticae aëris expansi ; III. Experimenta nova de condensatione aëris, solo frigore facta, ejusque compressione, sine machinis ; IV. Ejusdem quantitatis aëris rarefacti & compressi mire discrepans extensio.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.

Contributor:

Tournes, Samuel de, bookseller.

Boyle Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Air--Early works to 1800.

Air.

Air-pumps--Early works to 1800.

Air-pumps.

Mechanics--Early works to 1800.

Mechanics.

Physics--Early works to 1800.

Physics.

Physical Description:

4 unnumbered pages, 19 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 22 cm (4to)

Other Title:

Tractatvs scripti à Domino Roberto Boyle, Nobili Anglo, è Societate Regia

Fingerprint:

etb- e.a- umus doQu (3) 1677 (R)

Place of Publication:

Genevae : Apud Samuelem de Tournes, MDCLXXVII [1677]

Notes:

Signatures: 2L-2N⁴.

Latin translation of: Tracts about the admirable rarefaction of the air.

Possibly printed with Nova experimenta physico-mechanica de vi aëris elastica et eiusdem effectibus ... Genevae : Apud Samuelem de Tournes,1677. "From their signatures and their position in the collected volume these tracts would seem to have been printed with No. 23." Cf. Fulton no. 92 and 23.

Printer's device on t.p.; head- and tail-pieces; initials.

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."

Cited in:

Fulton, John F. Bibliography of the honourable Robert Boyle, 92

Contains:

Tracts about the admirable rarefaction of the air. Latin.

OCLC:

879944370