Considerations Touching Style Scriptures 1661 by Robert Boyle (2 results)

Full Leather Hard Back. Condition: Fair/good. First Edition. Some Motive Title Page + blank + xvi + 158 pages + Some Considerations Title Page + blank + xxxvii + blank + 254 pages. Antique full leather binding, fair/good, some splitting of spine, but holding OK. Contents mostly very good, clean & tight, lacks front blank endpage, inside front old inscription that it contains 2 works by Boyle over some older mostly pencil notes just visible, some darkening around edges to Some Motive Title Page due to binding. Only noticed one other ink inscription "No 30" to base of Some Considerations Title Page, there is some odd minimal marks, looks like from text ink to finger to page, inside rear cover is glued in what looks like part of an 1660's or earlier Latin page. Robert Boyle 1627 1691 was an amazing person, son of the 1st Earl of Cork, Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist physicist, and inventor. Boyle is largely regarded today as the first modern chemist, and therefore one of the founders of modern chemistry, and one of the pioneers of modern experimental scientific method. He is best known for Boyle's law, which describes the inversely proportional relationship between the absolute pressure and volume of a gas, if the temperature is kept constant. He returned to England from Europe in mid-1644 with a keen interest in scientific research.His father, Lord Cork, had died the previous year and had left him the manor of Stalbridge in Dorset as well as substantial estates. But later moved to Oxford. Boyle incorporated his scientific interests into his theology, believing that natural philosophy could provide powerful evidence for the existence God. He was also had a monogenist perspective about race/origin. He was a pioneer studying races, and he believed that all human beings, no matter how diverse their physical differences, came from the same source He was also a founder of the Royal Society. At time of listing, Both titles were the earliest copies listed for sale. And therefore both very rare. Size: 11 x 17cm Approx.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1661 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Pages: 314 NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 314.