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New experiments physico-mechanical, touching the spring of the air, and its effects : (made for the most part, in a new pneumatical engine) written by way of letter to the Right Honorable Charles, Lord Viscount of Dungarvan, eldest son to the Earl of Corke

Boyle, Robert (1627-1691)

1662

Half title: "New experiments physico-mechanical, touching the air. Whereunto is added a defence of the author's explication of the experiments, against the objections of Franciscus Linus, and Thomas H...

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An essay concerning the effects of air on human bodies

Arbuthnot, John (1667-1735)

1733

Signatures: A-P⁸.

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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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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.

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Who's who in aviation (1928)

Linney, A G; Sprigg, T Stanhope (1900-)

Editors: 1928- A.G. Linney & T.S. Sprigg.

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The chemistry of the purification of the air of towns : an imaginative sketch of Rotherham a few hundred years hence

Baker, W (of Sheffield)

[1870?]

"Reprinted from The Rotherham and Masbro' Advertiser, Saturday, Nov. 26th, 1870".

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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...

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La statique des vegetaux, et l'analyse de l'air : Experiences nouvelles lûes à la Societé Royale de Londres

Hales, Stephen (1677-1761); Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc comte de (1707-1788)

1735

"Appendice contenant plusieurs observations et plusieurs experiences qui ont rapport aux précédentes": p. [319]-400. Errata: p. [7] of second group. Pagination slightly irregular. Includes ind...

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