Nova experimenta physico-mechanica de VI aëris elastica et eiusdem effectibus; WITH Defensio doctrinae de elatere & gravitate aëris.

BOYLE, Robert (1627-1691).

Verlag: Roterodami: Ex officina Arnoldi Leers junioris, M.DC.LXIX. [1669]., 1669

12mo (128 x 70 mm.), two parts in one volume: [24] pages (including engraved title page); 351, [9] pages; and [30], 176, [10] pages (last [2] pages blank); [2] folded engraved plates of scientific instruments, including Boyle s air pump. Bound in contemporary parchment over boards, title in ink on spine (paper slightly browned with age, with a tear formerly repaired on pp. 287-288 (leaf M12) and a small hole on the second engraved plate). THIRD UNCOMMON LATIN EDITION OF BOYLE S NOVA EXPERIMENTA AND FIRST LATIN EDITION OF HIS DEFENSIO DOCTRINAE. The second section of the book, with a separate title page, comprises "Defensio doctrinae de elatere & gravitate aëris, propositae à Dno Rob. Boyle, in novis ipsius physico-mechanicis experimentis, adversius objectiones Francisci Lini," published here in Latin for the first time. Boyle was "the first to demonstrate experimentally the truth of belief, held since the time of Aristotle, that sound is conveyed by air [.], that is the weight of the air which supports the column of mercury in a barometer [.]. He demonstrated the weight of the air, its surprising elasticity, and its necessity for respiration and combustion." REFERENCES: J.F. Fulton, A Bibliography of the Honourable Robert Boyle (1932), no. 22. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 72JFP050

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Nova experimenta physico-mechanica de VI ...
Verlag: Roterodami: Ex officina Arnoldi Leers junioris, M.DC.LXIX. [1669].
Erscheinungsdatum: 1669
Einband: Full Vellum
Zustand: Very Good
Auflage: 3rd Edition.
Art des Buches: Book