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An essay concerning the effects of air on human bodies
Arbuthnot, John (1667-1735)
1733
Signatures: A-P⁸.
The general history of the air
Boyle, Robert (1627-1691)
1692
Signatures: A⁴ a² B-2K⁴ 2L². Book list of A. and J. Churchill (1 p.) at end. Includes bibliographical references.
An essay of the great effects of even languid and unheeded motion : whereunto is annexed An experimental discourse of some little observed causes of the insalubrity and salubrity of the air and its effects
Boyle, Robert (1627-1691)
1685
First edition. "An experimental discourse of some unheeded causes of the insalubrity and salubrity of the air" has separate title-page, pagination and signatures. Anon., by Robert Boyle.
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...
A description of ventilators : whereby great quantities of fresh air may with ease be conveyed into mines, goals, hospitals, work-houses and ships, in exchange for their noxious air. An account also of their great usefulness in many other respects: as in preserving all sorts of grain dry, sweet, and free from being destroyed by weevels, both in grainaries and ships, and in preserving many other sorts of goods. As also in drying corn, malt, hop, gun-powder, &c., and for many other useful purposes, which was read before the Royal Society in May, 1741
Hales, Stephen (1677-1761)
1743
A continuation was published in 1758 with title "A treatise on ventilators." Indexed in: References: Hanson : 5742.
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...
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.
Vegetable staticks : or, an account of some statical experiments on the sap in vegetables: being an essay towards a natural history of vegetation. Also, a specimen of an attempt to analyse the air, by a great variety of chymio-statical experiments; which were read at several meetings before the Royal Society
Hales, Stephen (1677-1761)
1727
P. 339 misnumbered 338.