The general history of the air designed and begun by the Honble. Robert Boyle ...

Title

The general history of the air designed and begun by the Honble. Robert Boyle ...

Author

Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.

Publication

London :: Printed for Awnsham and John Churchill ...,

1692.

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Air -- Early works to 1800.

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Contents

• title page
• Advertisement of the Publisher to the READER.
• The CONTENTS of the several TITLES of the History of the AIR.
• THE PREFACE.
• TITLE I.
• TITLE II.
• TITLE III.
• TITLE IV.
• TITLE V.
• TITLE VI.
  • New Experiments about producing of Air. And ex∣amining the Bodies produced.
  • Experiments about the Production of Air, and the examining thereof proposed.
• TITLE VII.
• TITLE VIII.
• TITLE IX.
• TITLE X.
• TITLE XI.
• TITLE XII.
• TITLE XIII.
• TITLE XIV.
• TITLE XV.
  • Extract of a Letter from Fort St. George, dated January the 23d, 1668.
  • In Lettere di Venetia.
• TITLE XVI.
• TITLE XVII.
  • A short Account of the Statical Baroscope, imparted by Mr. Boyl, March 24. 1665. In a Letter to Mr. H. Oldenburgh.
  • barometric readings
  • An Explication of the foregoing Register.
  • Experiment made at the Spire of the Cathedral-Church in Sarum, by Colonel John Windham, assisted by Mr. Tho. Naish, Clerk of the Works, and John Warner, in November, 1684.
  • subsection
  • A Letter to the Author.
  • Mr. Pascal in his small Tract, either De la Pesanteur de l' air; or in that Del' Equilibre des liqueurs.
• TITLE XVIII.
• TITLE XIX.
  • In the next Chapter.
  • An exact Relation of the Pico Teneriff, taken from Mr. Clappham.
• TITLE XX.
  • Some Observations of Capt. James, in his Northern Voyage, Mr. J. T. and others.
• TITLE XXI.
• TITLE XXII.
• TITLE XXIII.
• TITLE XXIV.
  • Experiments touching the Relation between Flame, Air.
• TITLE XXV.
• TITLE XXVI.
• TITLE XXVII.
• TITLE XXVIII.
• TITLE XXIX.
• TITLE XXX.
• TITLE XXXI.
• TITLE XXXII.
• TITLE XXXIII.
• TITLE XXXIV.
• TITLE XXXV.
• TITLE XXXVI.
• TITLE XXXVII.
• TITLE XXXVIII.
• TITLE XXXIX.
• TITLE XL.
• TITLE XLI.
• TITLE XLII.
• TITLE XLIII.
• TITLE XLIV.
• TITLE XLV.
• TITLE XLVI.
• TITLE XLVII.
• TITLE XLVIII.
• Books Printed for, and Sold by A. and J. Churchill, at the Black Swan in Pater-Noster-Row.