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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

Archive Print Item: Early Science 2 1673/BOY

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Type of record: Book

Title: 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

Level: Item

Classmark: Early Science 2 1673/BOY

Creator(s): Boyle, Robert (1627-1691)

Related people: More, Henry, 1614-1687; Sinclair, George, d. 1696

Publisher: Printed for Richard Davis

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1673

Language: English

Size and medium: 432 p. in various pagings

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/241124

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991013485099705181

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Each tract has separate part-title and pagination.


A reissue of the 1672 edition, including t.p., with errors in binding corrected.


The "Hydrostatical letter" is an answer to exceptions made by George Sinclair in his "Hydrostaticks" to an experiment of the author: "A way of weighing water in water".


Wing B4061.

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