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The discourse made before the Royal Society : concerning the use of duplicate proportion... together with a new hypothesis of springing or elastique motions
Petty, Sir William (1623-1687)
1674
Imprimatur dated "Thursday Decem. 10. 1674" and signed "Brounckek [sic], P.R.S." [i.e. William Brouncker, 2nd viscount Brouncker], on A1 verso.
An essay toward a natural history of the earth: and terrestrial bodies, especially minerals: as also of the sea, rivers, and springs : With an account of the universal deluge: and of the effects that it had upon the earth
Woodward, John (1665-1728)
1695
First edition. Errata: p. [16] (preliminary sequence). With booklist of R. Wilkin (2 pp.) at end. Title within double line border. Imprimatur: A1v. Signatures: A-S⁸ T⁴.
Irelands naturall history. Being a true and ample description of its situation, greatness, shape, and nature... of its fruitfull parts and profitable grounds ... its springs and fountaines ... metalls, mineralls ... the nature and temperature of its air and season
Boate, Gerard (1604-1650); Hartlib, Samuel (1662); Boate, Arnold (1600?-1653?)
1652
First edition. The address 'To the reader' prints a letter to Hartlib from the author's brother, Arnold Boate. There is a stub between quires M and N. Neither M8 nor N1 is a cancel. Final errata...
Meteors, or, A plain description of all kind of meteors, as well fiery and ayrie, as watry and earthy : briefly manifesting the causes of all blazing-stars, shooting-stars, flames in the aire, thunder, lightning, earthquakes, rain, dew, snow, clouds, springs, stones, and metalls
Fulke, William (1538-1589)
1654
By William Fulke. First issue, with imprint dated 1654. First published 1563, and reissued in 1571, with title: A goodly gallerye with a most pleasant prospect... to behold the naturall causes of ...
Meteors, or, A plain description of all kind of meteors, as well fiery and ayrie, as watry and earthy : briefly manifesting the causes of all blazing-stars, shooting-stars, flames in the aire, thunder, lightning, earthquakes, rain, dew, snow, clouds, springs, stones, and metalls
Fulke, William (1538-1589)
1670
By William Fulke. The third edition with this title. First published 1563, and reissued in 1571, with title: A goodly gallerye with a most pleasant prospect... to behold the naturall causes of all...
A continuation of new experiments physico-mechanical, touching the spring and weight of the air, and their effects. The I. part. Written by way of letter, to the Right Honourable the Lord Clifford and Dungarvan. Whereto is annext a short discourse of the atmospheres of consistent bodies. By the Honourable Robert Boyle, Fellow of the Royal Society
Boyle, Robert (1627-1691)
In the year 1669
Indexed in: Wing(2) B3934; Fulton 16; Madan 2820.
A continuation of new experiments physico-mechanical touching the spring and weight of the air, and their effects. The second part: wherein are contained divers experiments made both in compressed and also factitious air, about fire, animals, &c. Together with a description of the engines wherein they were made. By the Honourable Robert Boyle, Fellow of the Royal Society
Boyle, Robert (1627-1691)
Anno Dom. 1682
First published 1680, in Latin. A second Latin edition appeared in 1682. This is the first English edition. Among the preliminaries is a 3-page "Catalogue of all the philosophical works published by...
New experiments physico-mechanical touching the air
Boyle, Robert (1627-1691)
1682
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 s...
Meteorological essays : concerning the origin of springs, generation of rain, and production of wind. With a rational and historical account of the causes and course of the tide: its propagation thro' the great ocean; and its reception into the narrow seas, and channels : more especially near the coasts of Great Britain and Ireland. Explicating all along its various appearances and seeming irregularities. In two treatises
Barlow, E (1639-1719)
1715
By Edward Barlow. First edition.
Man a machine : Wherein the several systems of philosophers, in respect to the soul of man, are examined; the different states of the soul are shewn to be co-relative to those of the body; the diversity between men and other animals, is proved to arise from the different quantity and quality of brains; the law of nature is explained...; the immateriality of an inward principle ... is exploded, and a full detail is given of the several springs which move the human machine
La Mettrie, Julien Offray de (1709-1751)
1750
Original title: L'homme machine.
The annotated and illustrated Double helix
Watson, James D (1928-); Gann, Alexander (1954-); Witkowski, J A (1947-)
2012
Includes bibliographical references and index. On the fiftieth anniversary of Watson and Crick receiving the Nobel Prize, a freshly annotated and illustrated edition of The Double Helix provides new...