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Autore |
Boyle Robert <1627-1691.> |
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Titolo |
New experiments physico-mechanical, touching the air [[electronic resource]] |
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[London, : Printed by Miles Flesher for Richard Davis, bookseller in Oxford, 1682] |
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Edizione |
[The third edition : whereunto is added a defence of the author's explication of the experiments, against the objections of Franciscus Linus and, Thomas Hobbs.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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[16], 203, [12], 117, [8], 102, [2] p., 2 leaves of plates (1 folded) ; ; 21 cm |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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SharrockRobert <1630-1684.> |
BoyleRobert <1627-1691.> |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title taken from half-title. Each of the three works has special t. p. and separate paging; the third has separate signatures. |
Contains the first formulation of Boyle's law. |
"A catalogue of all the philosophical works published by our author": p. [1]-[2] at end. |
Edited by Robert Sharrock. |
Reproduction of original in Huntington Library. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 pnuematical [sic] engine : written by way of letter to the Right Honorable Charles Lord Vicount of Dungarvan, eldest son to the Earl of Corke / by the Honorable Robert Boyle Esq. -- A defence of the doctrine touching the spring and weight of the air, propos'd by Mr. R. Boyle in his New physico-mechanical experiments, against the objections of Franciscus Linus : wherewith the objector's funicular hypothesis is also examin'd / by the author of those experiments -- An examen of Mr. T. Hobbs his Dialogus physicus de naturâ aëris, as far as it concerns Mr. Boyle's book of New experiments touching the spring of the air, &c. : with an appendix touching Mr. Hobbs's doctrine of fluidity and firmness / by |
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the author of those experiments. |
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