1st Edition

The Works of Robert Boyle, Part II Vol 1

By Michael Hunter, Edward B Davis Copyright 2001
    648 Pages
    by Routledge

    Including all Robert Boyle's published works, this is the final seven volumes of a 14-volume set. All texts are fully annotated and comprehensively indexed. Works originally in Latin are presented in their contemporary English translations.

    VOLUME 8 Publications of 1674-6, Introductory Notes, The Excellency of Theology Compar’d with Natural Philosophy (1674), About the Excellency and Grounds of the Mechanical Hypothesis, Tracts... by the Honourable Robert Boyle (1674), Suspicions about Some Hidden Qualities of the Air, Observations about the Growth of Metals, Animadversions upon Mr Hobbes’ Problemata de Vacuo, Of the Cause of Attraction by Suction, New Experiments about the Preservation of Bodies, Some Considerations about the Reconcileableness of Reason and Religion (1675), About the Possibility of the Resurrection, Experiments, Notes, &c., about the Mechanical Origin of Qualities (1675-6), Of the Mechanical Origin of Heat and Cold, Experiments and Observations about the Mechanical Production of Tastes, Experiments and Observations about the Mechanical Production of Odours, Of the Imperfection of the Chemists’ Doctrine of Qualities, Reflections upon the Hypothesis of Alcali and Acid, Experiments and Notes about the Mechanical Origin of Volatility, Experimental Notes of the Mechanical Origin or Production of Fixedness, Experiments and Notes about the Mechanical Origin or Production of Corrosiveness, Of the Mechanical Causes of Chemical Precipitation, Experiments and Notes about the Mechanical Production of Magnetism, Experiments and Notes about the Mechanical Origin or Production of Electricity, Papers in Philosophical Transactions, 1674-6 Glossary

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    Michael Hunter, Edward B Davis