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.

Wing B4000 (New experiments)

Wing B3942 (A defence of the doctrine)

Arber's Term cat. II 7

Fulton, J. Bibl. of Robert Boyle 15

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.

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