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The origine of formes and qualities : (according to the corpuscular philosophy,) illustrated by considerations and experiments, (written formerly by way of notes upon an essay about nitre)
Boyle, Robert (1627-1691)
1666
First edition. Errata: p. [434].
A disquisition about the final causes of natural things: wherein it is inquir'd, whether, and (if at all) with what cautions, a naturalist should admit them?
Boyle, Robert (1627-1691)
1688
First edition; issue with author's full name instead of initials on title-page. "Some uncommon observations about vitiated sight. London: printed for J. Taylor, at the Ship in St. Paul's Church-Yard...
A disquisition about the final causes of natural things: wherein it is inquir'd, whether, and (if at all) with what cautions, a naturalist should admit them?
Boyle, Robert (1627-1691)
1688
First edition; issue with author's full name instead of initials on title-page. "Some uncommon observations about vitiated sight. London: printed for J. Taylor, at the Ship in St. Paul's Church-Yard...
Essays of the strange subtilty, great efficacy, determinate nature of effluviums : to which are annext New experiments to make fire and flame ponderable: together with A discovery of the perviousness of glass
Boyle, Robert (1627-1691)
1673
First issue of the first edition. "Of the strange subtility of effluviums," "New experiments..." and "A discovery of the perviousness of glass" have individual title-pages; the essays "Of great effi...
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.
Hydrostatical paradoxes, made out by new experiments (for the most part physical and easie)
Boyle, Robert (1627-1691)
1666
Indexed in: Wing B3985; Madan 2738; Fulton 72; but in this copy the Imprimatur leaf precedes the title, and the Contents leaf, with which the Imprimatur lead is conjugate, is signed b, not (as implied...
Medicina hydrostatica: or, Hydrostaticks applyed to the materia medica. Shewing, how by the weight that divers bodies, us'd in physick, have in water; one may discover whether they be genuine or adulterate. To which is subjoyn'd, a previous hydrostatical way of estimating ores. By the Honourable Robert Boyle, Fellow of the Royal Society
Boyle, Robert (1627-1691)
1690
First tract in English on the determination of specific gravity. With a metal-cut frontispiece showing scientific equipment. With a half-titlepage reading: Experiments and observations, relating to ...
Of the reconcileableness of specifick medicines to the corpuscular philosophy. To which is annexed a discourse about the advantages of the use of simple medicines by the Honorable Robert Boyle Fellow of the Royal Society
Boyle, Robert (1627-1691)
1685
Preceding p. 137 is an inserted lead (also numbered 137), being the half-title to 'The advantages of the use of simple medicines. Proposed by was of invitation to it'. Publisher's booklist, [2]-[14]...
Experiments and considerations about the porosity of bodies : in two essays
Boyle, Robert (1627-1691)
1684
First edition.
Short memoirs for the natural experimental history of mineral waters : addressed by way of letter to a friend
Boyle, Robert (1627-1691)
1684/5
Heading-title (p.1) reads: Short memoirs for the natural experimental history of particular mineral waters, address'd to his learned friend, Dr. S.L. H3 unsigned (not noted by Fulton). With 11 pp....
Certain physiological essays and other tracts : written at distant times, and on several occasions
Boyle, Robert (1627-1691)
1669
"Two essays concerning the unsuccessfulness of experiments" and "Some specimens of an attempt to mae chymical experiments useful to illustrate the notions of corpuscular philosophy" have separate titl...
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
Boyle, Robert (1627-1691)
1676
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...