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EXPERIMENTORUM NOVORUM PHYSICO-MECHANICORUM CONTINUATIO SECUNDA IN QUA EXPERIMENTA VARIA
by BOYLE, Robert..:
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Geneva, Apud Samuelem de Tournes. 1682.. TITLE CONTINUED: tum in aere compresso, tum in factitio, instituta, circa ignem, animalia, &c. Una cum descriptione machinarum continentur. 1682, Latin text, small 4to, 230 x 175 mm, 9 x 6¾ inches, printer's pictorial device on title page, 5 folding engraved plates, pages: (8), 1-130, (2), rebound in full modern panelled calf, gilt lettered maroon label to spine, gilt decoration to spine, new endpapers. Pages lightly age-browned, occasional pale margin foxing, small pale stain to title page and first 15 pages, 20 mm (1") diameter gradually diminishing in size, not obscuring text, occasional pale stain to margins, small tear on 1 lower margin (paper flaw?), scribble in margin of final text page and first page of index, 4th plate slightly foxed at lower edge, tiny hole in blank area of 5th plate neatly repaired. A good copy. This is an early Latin edition of the second continuation of Boyle's "New experiments physico-mechanicall, touching the spring of the air, and its effects", first published in 1660 and first published in Latin in London in 1680. This second continuation to Boyle's first scientific work describes the third air pump used in England. This pump was designed in 1676 by Denis Papin, who had brought it with him from France the same year, when he joined Boyle. Fulton, The Works of the Honourable Robert Boyle, No. 17A and pages 9-13; Wellcome Historical Medical Library, Volume 2, pages 220- 221. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.
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- EXPERIMENTORUM NOVORUM PHYSICO-MECHANICORUM CONTINUATIO SECUNDA IN QUA EXPERIMENTA VARIA
- Author
- BOYLE, Robert..:
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- Place of Publication
- Geneva, Apud Samuelem de Tournes. 1682.
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- Keywords
- Science experiments Air Pump Physics Mechanics Antiquarian Science Robert Boyle chemistry
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