Experiments, notes, &c. about the mechanical origine or production of divers particular qualities : among which is inserted a discourse of the imperfection of the chymist's doctrine of qualities; together with some reflections upon the hypothesis of alcali and acidum
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Type of record: Book
Title: Experiments, notes, &c. about the mechanical origine or production of divers particular qualities : among which is inserted a discourse of the imperfection of the chymist's doctrine of qualities; together with some reflections upon the hypothesis of alcali and acidum
Other titles: Experiments, notes, etc. about the mechanical origine or production of divers particular qualities
Classmark: BC Sc BOY
Creator(s): Boyle, Robert (1627-1691)
Publisher: Printed by E. Flesher, for R. Davis... in Oxford
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1676
Language: English
Size and medium: 12 parts in 1 (586 unnumbered pages in various pagings)
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/285746
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991002168929705181
Description
Eleven tracts, with a general introdution. Each tract is individually signed and paginated, and has a separate divisional t.p. With the exception of the 10th tract ("Magnetism"), which has the imprint date 1676, each divisional t.p. has the imprint: London, Printed by E. Flesher, for R. Davis... in Oxford, 1675.
This is a re-issue, with cancel title-page, of the first edition published in 1675.
Contents: Of the mechanical origine of heat and cold -- Experiments, and observations, about the mechanical production of tasts -- Experiments, and observations, about the mechanical production of odours -- Of the imperfection of the chymist's doctrine of qualities -- Reflections upon the hypothesis of alcali and acidum -- Experiments, and notes, about the mechanical origine and production of volatility -- Experimental notes of the mechanical origine or production of fixtness -- Experiments and notes about the mechanical origine or production of corrosiveness and corrosibility -- Of the mechanical causes of chymical precipitation -- Experiments and notes about the mechanical production of magnetism -- Experiments and notes about the mechanical origine or production of electricity.
Indexed in: Fulton, J.F. Boyle (2nd ed.) 124; Wing (2nd ed.), 3977; Madan 3098.
Additional description
The additional leaf (*), 'Directions for the book-binder' and 'Errata', which should follow the general title-page, is in this copy bound after the general introduction. Wanting the blank leaf B8 in the first tract, but with the single blank leaves concluding the fourth, fifth and seventh. With Harvard College Library bookplate (Farrar bequest) and Houghton Library label, the latter dated 17 March 1920. Harvard University Library stamp on spine. Lettered: BOYLE'S TRACTS
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