BOYLE, ROBERT. 1627-1691. New Experiments Physico-Mechanical, Touching the Spring of the Air, and its Effects.... Oxford: printed by H. Hall for Thomas Robinson 1662. 3 parts in 1 volume. 8vo (189 x 151 mm). [16], 207, [12], 122, [8], 98 pp. Half title, separate title for each part. 1 (of 2) engraved plate (partial). Woodcut on title page, woodcut initials and headpieces. Modern quarter calf over mottled boards. Fold-out plate partly lacking and replaced by facsimile. Provenance: Wm. Thomas Brande (1788-1866) professor of chemistry at the Royal Institution, signature on title; Harvard College Library (stamp and deaccession stamp on verso of first title); David P. Wheatland (bookplate); Dr. & Mrs. H.R. Knohl, The Fox Pointe Collection, bookplate, their sale Sotheby's New York, 26 October 2016, lot 36. BOUND WITH: New Experiments and Observations Touching Cold, or An Experimental History of Cold ... Whereunto is Annexed an Account of Freezing ... by Dr. C. Merret ... Together with an Appendix Containing Some Promiscuous Experiments and Observations.... London: printed for Richard Davis 1683. Second edition. [44], 324, [18], [32] pp. SECOND AND MOST IMPORTANT EDITION, publishing for the first time "what Boyle called an 'hypothesis' but what we know as 'Boyle's Law': that the volume of air in a confined space varies inversely as the pressure" (PMM 143). Boyle and Robert Hooke developed a vacuum air pump, and began experimenting and observing the results of their work—an approach that was controversial at the time. Boyle created the modern definition of an element, introduced litmus paper to test acidity, and was a founding member of the Royal Society in London. Fulton 14; Garrison-Morton 666; Wing B-3999.
BOYLE, ROBERT. 1627-1691. New Experiments Physico-Mechanical, Touching the Spring of the Air, and its Effects.... Oxford: printed by H. Hall for Thomas Robinson 1662. 3 parts in 1 volume. 8vo (189 x 151 mm). [16], 207, [12], 122, [8], 98 pp. Half title, separate title for each part. 1 (of 2) engraved plate (partial). Woodcut on title page, woodcut initials and headpieces. Modern quarter calf over mottled boards. Fold-out plate partly lacking and replaced by facsimile. Provenance: Wm. Thomas Brande (1788-1866) professor of chemistry at the Royal Institution, signature on title; Harvard College Library (stamp and deaccession stamp on verso of first title); David P. Wheatland (bookplate); Dr. & Mrs. H.R. Knohl, The Fox Pointe Collection, bookplate, their sale Sotheby's New York, 26 October 2016, lot 36. BOUND WITH: New Experiments and Observations Touching Cold, or An Experimental History of Cold ... Whereunto is Annexed an Account of Freezing ... by Dr. C. Merret ... Together with an Appendix Containing Some Promiscuous Experiments and Observations.... London: printed for Richard Davis 1683. Second edition. [44], 324, [18], [32] pp. SECOND AND MOST IMPORTANT EDITION, publishing for the first time "what Boyle called an 'hypothesis' but what we know as 'Boyle's Law': that the volume of air in a confined space varies inversely as the pressure" (PMM 143). Boyle and Robert Hooke developed a vacuum air pump, and began experimenting and observing the results of their work—an approach that was controversial at the time. Boyle created the modern definition of an element, introduced litmus paper to test acidity, and was a founding member of the Royal Society in London. Fulton 14; Garrison-Morton 666; Wing B-3999.
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