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 Society

• Autore: Boyle Robert <1627-1691.>
• Pubblicazione: London, : Sold by S. Smith at the Prince's Arms in St. Paul's Church-yard., 1690
• Edizione: The Second Edition.
• Descrizione fisica: [190] p. in various pagings
• Soggetto topico: Seawater; Cold; Humidity; Physics
• Note generali: Imperfect: tightly bound, with loss of text.; Reproduction of original in: Eton College. Library.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: eebo-0050
• Titolo autorizzato: Tracts
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996387680903316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno