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
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Title: 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
Classmark: BC Sc/BOY
Creator(s): Boyle, Robert (1627-1691)
Publisher: printed for Samuel Smith
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1690
Language: English
Size and medium: [24], 217, [7] p., frontis. (metal cut)
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/285663
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991002160059705181
Description
First tract in English on the determination of specific gravity.
With a metal-cut frontispiece showing scientific equipment. With a half-titlepage reading: Experiments and observations, relating to the materia medica. Tome 1.
"A previous hydrostatical way of estimatin ores" has part-title.
Indexed in: Wing(2) B3988; Fulton 189.
Additional description
Bound with 1 other publication in a volume lettered MEDICINA HYDROSTATIC. Volume contents: 1. Boyle, R.: Medicina hydrostatica, 1690. -- 2. A catalogue of the philosophical books and tracts written by ... Robert Boyle, 1690. With bookplate of W.J. Saunders
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