Defensio doctrinae de elatere & gravitate aëris, propositae à Dno Rob. Boyle, in Novis ipsius physico-mechanicis experimentis : adversus objectiones Francisci Lini : ubi etiam objectoris funicularis hypothesis examinatur, eâque occasione nova quaedam experimenta adduntur : Ab autore suprà-dictorum experimentorum

Name:

Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1663

Language:

Latin

Provenance:

Borghese, Marcantonio, principe, 1730-1800 (bookplate) (Boyle Collection copy)

Publisher:

Excudebat J. Redmayne impensis Johannis Crook ..

Subject:

Line, Francis, 1595-1675; Air -- Early works to 1800; Air; Air-pumps -- Early works to 1800; Line, Francis, 1595-1675. Tractatus de corporum inseparabilitate; Air-pumps

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

books

Physical Description:

20 unnumbered pages, 86 pages, 6 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations; 18 cm (8vo)

Related Place:

England -- London.

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Signatures: pi² A-F⁸ G⁶.; First edition in Latin of the author's A defence of the doctrine touching the spring and weight of the air, which was first published (Oxford, 1662) in his New experiments physico-mechanical, touching the air.; Head- and tail-pieces; initials.; Paragraph notes.; Includes index.; Cf. Oxford bibliographical society. Proceedings & papers. 1933. v. 3, p. 26-27, no. 21.; Boyle Collection copy is from the Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection, with a pictorial bookplate on rear pastedown that reads "The Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection University of Pennsylvania."; Boyle Collection copy has a bookplate that reads "Ex libris M. A. Principis Burgheseii" on front pastedown, possibly of Prince Marcantonio Borghese (1730-1800), 5th Prince of Sulmona.; Boyle Collection copy bound in full parchment; illegible ms. writing in brown ink on spine; all edges speckled blue.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, E.F. Smith Collection, Boyle QC161 .B791 1663

Collection:

Boyle Collection (University of Pennsylvania); Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection (University of Pennsylvania)