Tracts [microform] : consisting of observations about the saltness of the sea: an account of a statical hygroscope and its uses: together with an appendix about the force of the air's moisture: a fragment about the natural and preternatural state of bodies. / By the Honourable Robert Boyle. ; To all which is premis'd a sceptical dialogue about the positive or privative nature of cold: with some experiments of Mr. Boyle's referr'd to in that discourse. By a member of the Royal Society
- Author
- Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691
- Published
- London : Sold by S. Smith at the Prince's Arms in St. Paul's Church-yard, 1690.
- Edition
- The Second Edition.
- Physical Description
- 190 unnumbered pages in various pagings
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- Series
- Contents
- Of the positive or privative nature of cold, a sceptical dialogue ... -- Two problems about cold, grounded on new experiments, and proposed in a letter to a friend: an attempt to manifest and measure the great expansive force of freezing water; a new experiment about the production of cold by the conflict of bodies appearing to make an ebullition -- Observations and experiments about the saltness of the sea -- The fourth section belonging to the tract formerly published under the title, Relations about the bottom of the sea -- A paradox of the natural and preternatural state of bodies, especially of the air -- A statical hygroscope proposed to be farther tryed, in a letter to H. Oldenburgh Esq. ... -- A new experiment and other instances of the efficacy of the air's moisture.
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- Related Titles
- Relations about the bottom of the sea
New experiment and other instances of the efficacy of the air's moisture
Observations and experiments about the saltness of the sea
Of the positive or privative nature of cold
Paradox of the natural and preternatural state of bodies, especially of the air
Statical hygroscope proposed to be farther tryed
Two problems about cold, grounded on new experiments - Note
- Imperfect: tightly bound, with loss of text.
Reproduction of original in: Eton College. Library.
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- Available electronically as part of Early English books online.
- Reproduction Note
- Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 2000. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 2649:3)
- Reviewed/Cited In
- Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (2nd ed.) B4053A
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