New experiments physico-mechanical touching the air
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Type of record: Book
Title: New experiments physico-mechanical touching the air
Classmark: BC Sc/BOY
Creator(s): Boyle, Robert (1627-1691)
Related people: Line, Francis, 1595-1675; Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679
Publisher: Printed by Miles Flesher for Richard Davis,... in Oxford
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1682
Language: English
Size and medium: [xvi], 203, [13], 117, [9], 102, [2] p., [10] leaves of plates (1 folded)
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/285781
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991002174849705181
Description
Text from second edition.
Issued without a general title-page. Catalogued from general half-title. Imprint from sub-title to section 1.
The replies to F. Linus and to Hobbes each have a separate sub-title and separate pagination. The sub-title to the former reads: "A defence of the doctrine touching the weight and spring of the air... against the objections of Franciscus Linus ..."; and to the latter: "An examen of Mr. T. Hobbs his Dialogus physicus de naturà aëris ... [etc.]".
The last leaf carries on recto and verso "A catalogue of all the philosophical works published by our author".
Signatures: A⁴ a⁴ B-2T⁴ 2V⁴ a-o⁴.
"A catalogue of all the philosophical works published by our author"--P. [1]-[2] at end.
Contents: New experiments physico-mechanical, touching the spring of the air, and its effects, made, for the most part, in a new pnuematical engine -- A defence of the doctrine touching the spring and weight of the air, propos'd by Mr. R. Boyle in his New physico-mechanical experiments, against the objections of Franciscus Linus, wherewith the objector's funicular hypothesis is also examin'd -- An examen of Mr. T. Hobbs his Dialogus physicus de naturâ aëris, as far as it concerns Mr. Boyle's book of new experiments touching the spring of the air, &c., with an appendix touching Mr. Hobb's doctrine of fluidity and firmness.
Indexed in: Wing (2nd ed.) B4000.
Additional description
Bound with 2 other publications by the same author in a volume lettered: BOYLE'S EXP ON AIR & CONTINUATI. Volume contents: 1. New experiments physico-mechanical touching the air, 1669. -- 2. A continuation of new experiments physico-mechanical ... The I. part, 1669. -- 3. A continuation of new experiments physico-mechanical ... The second part, 1682. On the paste-down at the front is written: 1650 E/
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