New experiments physico-mechanical, touching the air.

New experiments physico-mechanical, touching the spring of the air, and its effects

[London] : [Printed by Miles Flesher for Richard Davis, bookseller in Oxford], [1682]

16 unnumbered pages, 203 pages, 12 unnumbered pages, 117 pages, 8 unnumbered pages, 102 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 2 leaves of plates (1 folded) ; 21 cm

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.

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.

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 the author of those experiments.

Wing B4000 (New experiments)

Wing B3942 (A defence of the doctrine)

Arber's Term cat. II 7

Fulton, J. Bibl. of Robert Boyle 15

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 707:11) s1999 miun s