02372nam 2200409Ia 450 99638768090331620221108042901.0(CKB)4940000000086611(EEBO)2240883398(OCoLC)47682807(EXLCZ)99494000000008661120010731d1690 uy 0engurbn||||a|bb|Tracts[electronic resource] consisting of observations about the saltness of the sea: an account of a statical hygroscope and its uses: together with an appendix about the force of the air's moisture: a fragment about the natural and preternatural state of bodies. /By the Honourable Robert Boyle. ; To all which is premis'd a sceptical dialogue about the positive or privative nature of cold: with some experiments of Mr. Boyle's referr'd to in that discourse. By a member of the Royal SocietyThe Second Edition.London Sold by S. Smith at the Prince's Arms in St. Paul's Church-yard.1690[190] p. in various pagingsImperfect: tightly bound, with loss of text.Reproduction of original in: Eton College. Library.Of the positive or privative nature of cold, a sceptical dialogue ... -- Two problems about cold, grounded on new experiments, and proposed in a letter to a friend: an attempt to manifest and measure the great expansive force of freezing water; a new experiment about the production of cold by the conflict of bodies appearing to make an ebullition -- Observations and experiments about the saltness of the sea -- The fourth section belonging to the tract formerly published under the title, Relations about the bottom of the sea -- A paradox of the natural and preternatural state of bodies, especially of the air -- A statical hygroscope proposed to be farther tryed, in a letter to H. Oldenburgh Esq. ... -- A new experiment and other instances of the efficacy of the air's moisture.eebo-0050SeawaterColdHumidityPhysicsSeawater.Cold.Humidity.Physics.Boyle Robert1627-1691.67901EAEEAEBOOK996387680903316Tracts2335083UNISA