A Continuation of New Experiments Physico-Mechanical, Touching the Spring and Weight of the AIR, and their Effects.Whereto is annext a short Discourse Of the Atmospheres of Consistent Bodies

Robert Boyle

Published by Printed by Henry Hall Printer to the University, for Richard Davis, Oxford, 1669

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A very good copy in new quarter leather binding with raised bands to spine and title label and gilt date, and marbled boards. Complete with 8 fold-out plates, and decorative head and tailpieces. A continuation of Robert Boyle's work on gases published in 1660. He was a significant experimental physicist, best known for the formulation of Boyle's Law in 1662. It is now known that this also drew on work by Richard Towneley and Henry Power who has been working on the study of gases from 1653. Their work was affected by Boyle's 1660 publication and they completed their experiment in 1661, forwarding their results to the Royal Society who passed it on to 'interested persons' including Boyle. Boyle credited Towneley with the discovery, but the published equation was Boyle's and became Boyle's Law. This work is an update on Boyle's continuing experimentation. [ref Webster, Nature Vol 197 Jan 1965]. Contents: title; preface 12pp; fold out plates I & II (II bound before I); advertisements 5pp leading into errata - which have an old cross-hatched ink crossing - out. They are still readable; half title to the 1st Part; text 1-176; half title to Notes; advertisement 2pp; text 181-198 Finis; contents 10pp; fold out plates III-VIII. The contents are very clean and in good order with light toning to page edges. There is a small repaired tear to the attachment to Plate I; a number of scholarly notes - mainly referencing figures on plates; a ragged bottom edge to p193; darkened and slightly nibbled top edge to Plate II; darkened top edge Plate VII; and slight nick to top edge Plate VIII. Old quarto size - 21 cm x 16.5 cm. Seller Inventory # 032911

Bibliographic Details

Title: A Continuation of New Experiments ...

Publisher: Printed by Henry Hall Printer to the University, for Richard Davis, Oxford

Publication Date: 1669

Binding: Quarter Leather

Condition: Very Good

Edition: 1st Edition