Tracts: containing I. Suspicions about some hidden qualities of the air : with an appendix touching celestial magnets, and some other particulars. II. Animadversions upon Mr. Hobbes's Problemata de vacuo. III. A discourse of the cause of suction by attraction. By the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esq; Fellow of the Royal Society.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.

Series:

Early English books online

Standardized Title:

Tracts about the hidden qualities of the air

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679. Problemata physica--Early works to 1800.

Hobbes, Thomas.

Air--Early works to 1800.

Air.

Pneumatics--Early works to 1800.

Pneumatics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (6 unnumbered pages, 71 pages, 1 unnumbered page; 2 unnumbered pages, 25 pages, 1 unnumbered page; 2 unnumbered pages, 13 pages, 1 unnumbered page; 10 unnumbered pages, 94; pages, 6 unnumbered pages, 67 pages, 1 unnumbered page; 8 unnumbered pages, 17 pages, 1 unnumbered page)

Place of Publication:

London : printed by W[illiam]. G[odbid]. and are to be sold by M. Pitt, at the Angel against the Little North Door of St. Paul's Church, 1675.

System Details:

text file

Notes:

Printer's name from Wing CD.

"Observations about the grovvth of metals in their ore exposed to the air," "Some additional experiments relating to the suspicions about the hidden qualities of the air," "Animadversions upon Mr. Hobbes's problemata de vacuo," "Of the cause of attraction by suction," and "New experiments about the preservation of bodies in vacuo Boyliano;" each have separate pagination, register, and title page, with "printed by William Godbid, and are to be sold by Moses Pitt, .. 1674" in imprint.

General title page has printed date of 1675. The "5" in the date has been changed in ink to a "4". Other changes in MS. in the title page are: "suction by" crossed out. "by suction" added after "attraction".

Fulton notes that the title page may be a cancel.

Reproduction of original in the Bodleian Library.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 2364:11) s1999 miun s

Cited in:

Wing (CD-ROM, 1996) B4054A

Fulton, J. Boyle 119A

Contains:

Observations about the growth of metals in their ore exposed to the air.

Some additional experiments relating to the suspicions about the hidden qualities of the air.

Of the cause of attraction by suction.

Animadversions upon Mr. Hobbes's problemata de vacuo.

New experiments about the preservation of bodies in vacuo Boyliano.

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