LEADER 02372nam 2200409Ia 450 001 996387680903316 005 20221108042901.0 035 $a(CKB)4940000000086611 035 $a(EEBO)2240883398 035 $a(OCoLC)47682807 035 $a(EXLCZ)994940000000086611 100 $a20010731d1690 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurbn||||a|bb| 200 10$aTracts$b[electronic resource] $econsisting of observations about the saltness of the sea: an account of a statical hygroscope and its uses: together with an appendix about the force of the air's moisture: a fragment about the natural and preternatural state of bodies. /$fBy 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 Society 205 $aThe Second Edition. 210 $aLondon $cSold by S. Smith at the Prince's Arms in St. Paul's Church-yard.$d1690 215 $a[190] p. in various pagings 300 $aImperfect: tightly bound, with loss of text. 300 $aReproduction of original in: Eton College. Library. 327 $aOf 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. 330 $aeebo-0050 606 $aSeawater 606 $aCold 606 $aHumidity 606 $aPhysics 615 0$aSeawater. 615 0$aCold. 615 0$aHumidity. 615 0$aPhysics. 700 $aBoyle$b Robert$f1627-1691.$067901 801 0$bEAE 801 1$bEAE 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996387680903316 996 $aTracts$92335083 997 $aUNISA