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mathematics3
air1
air-pump1
geometry1

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Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-16794
Wallis, John (1616-1703)3
Boyle, Robert (1627-1691)1
Line, Francis, 1595-16751

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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...

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Due correction for Mr Hobbes : or, Schoole [sic] discipline, for not saying his lessons right : in answer to his Six lessons directed to the professors of mathematicks

Wallis, John (1616-1703)

1656

Dedication signed: John Wallis. Part of a long-lasting controversy between Wallis and Hobbes. "Six lessons" forms part of "Elements of philosophy, the first section, concerning body", 1656, the Engl...

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Hobbius Heauton-timorumenos, or, A consideration of Mr. Hobbes his dialogves : in an epistolary discourse, addressed, to the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esq

Wallis, John (1616-1703)

1662

Dated at end: Oxon. Febr. 20. 1661/2. Error in paging: p. 27-28 misprinted 26-27. Errata: p. [4]. An answer to Hobbes' Dialogus physicus, 1661, and part of a long-lasting controversy between the...

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Thomæ Hobbes Quadratura circuli, cubatio sphære, duplicatio cubi, confutata

Wallis, John (1616-1703)

1669

Page 1 headed "Hobbianæ Quadraturæ circuli... confutatio". First gathering correctly lettered A. Hobbes' work received by Wallis on the evening of June 2; this work in press on June 3 (imprimatu...

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