New experiments physico-mechanical, touching the air

Title

New experiments physico-mechanical, touching the air

Author

Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.

Publication

[London :: Printed by Miles Flesher for Richard Davis, bookseller in Oxford,

1682]

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Subject terms

Line, Francis, 1595-1675. -- Tractatus de corporum inseparabilitate.

Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679. -- Dialogus physicus.

Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691 -- Bibliography.

Air -- Early works to 1800.

Air-pump -- Early works to 1800.

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Contents

• half title
• title page
• to the reader
• preface
• table of contents
• text
  • EXPERIMENT I.
  • EXPERIMENT II.
  • EXPERIMENT III.
  • EXPERIMENT IV.
  • EXPERIMENT V.
  • EXPERIMENT VI.
  • EXPERIMENT VII.
  • EXPERIMENT VIII.
  • EXPERIMENT IX.
  • EXPERIMENT X.
  • EXPERIMENT XI.
  • EXPERIMENT XII.
  • EXPERIMENT XIII.
  • EXPERIMENT XIV.
  • EXPERIMENT XV.
  • EXPERIMENT XVI.
  • EXPERIMENT XVII.
  • EXPERIMENT XVIII.
  • EXPERIMENT XIX.
  • EXPERIMENT XX.
  • EXPERIMENT XXI.
  • EXPERIMENT XXII.
  • EXPERIMENT XXIII.
  • EXPERIMENT XXIV.
  • EXPERIMENT XXV.
  • EXPERIMENT XXVI.
  • EXPERIMENT XXVII.
  • EXPERIMENT XXVIII.
  • EXPERIMENT XXIX.
  • EXPERIMENT XXX.
  • EXPERIMENT XXXI.
  • EXPERIMENT XXXII.
  • EXPERIMENT XXXIII.
  • EXPERIMENT XXXIIII.
  • EXPERIMENT XXXV.
  • EXPERIMENT XXXVI.
  • EXPERIMENT XXXVII.
  • EXPERIMENT XXXVIII.
  • EXPERIMENT XXXIX.
  • EXPERIMENT XL.
  • EXPERIMENT XLI.
  • A Digression containing some Doubts touching Respiration.
  • EXPERIMENT XLII.
  • EXPERIMENT XLIII.
  • The CONCLVSION.
• title page
• to the reader
• THE AUTHOUR's PREFACE AND DECLARATION.
• A DEFENCE Of Mr. R. BOYLE's EXPLICATIONS of his Physico-Mechanical EXPERIMENTS, against FRANCISCUS LINUS.
  • The I. Part. Wherein the Adversaries Objections against the Elaterists are examined.
    • CHAP. I.
    • CHAP. II.
    • CHAP. III.
    • CHAP. IV.
    • CHAP. V.
    • CHAP. VI.
  • The II. Part. Wherein the Adversaries Funicular Hypothesis is examin'd
    • CHAP. I. What is alledged to prove the Funiculus is consider'd; and some Difficulties are propos'd against the Hypothesis.
    • CHAP. II Divers other Difficulties are objected against the Funicular Hypothesis
    • CHAP. III. The Aristotelean Rarefaction (proposed by the Adver∣sary) examin'd.
    • CHAP. IV. A Consideration (pertinent to the present Controversie) of what happens in trying the Torricellian and other Experiments, at the tops and feet of Hills.
    • CHAP. V. Two new Experiments touching the measure of the Force of the Spring of Air compress'd and dilated.
  • The III. Part. Wherein what is objected against Mr. Boyle's Expli∣cations of particular Experiments, is answered.
    • A defence of our 1. and 2. Experiments.
    • The 3. Experiment.
    • The 4. Experiment.
    • The 5. Experiment.
    • The 8. Experiment.
    • The 9. Experiment.
    • The 17 Experiment defended.
    • The 18 Experiment.
    • The 19 Experiment.
    • The 20 Experiment.
    • The 31 Experiment.
    • The 32 and 33 Experiments.
    • The 34, 35 and 36 Experiments.
    • The 37 Experiment.
    • The 38 and 39 Experiments.
    • The 40 and 41 Experiments.
    • The 42 and 43 Experiments.
• AN EXPLICATION OF RAREFACTION.
  • An Explication of the Rota Aristotelica.
• The Citations Englished.
• A Summary of the Contents of the several Chapters.
  • PART I.
    • CHAP. I.
    • CHAP. II.
    • CHAP. III.
    • CHAP. IV.
    • CHAP. V.
    • CHAP. VI.
  • PART II.
    • CHAP. I.
    • CHAP. II.
    • CHAP. III.
    • CHAP. IV.
    • CHAP. V.
  • PART III.
• title page
• THE PREFACE.
• AN EXAMEN Of the greatest Part of Mr. HOBBS's DIALOGUS PHYSICUS De Natura Aeris.
  • CHAP. I. The Occasion and Scope of the present Treatise.
  • CHAP. II. Of some mistakes of Mr. Hobbs touching matters of fact, and the Author's Doctrine.
  • CHAP. III. Wherein the Weight and Spring of the Air are asserted against Mr. Hobbs.
  • CHAP. IV. Wherein Mr. Hobbs's principal Explications of the Phaeno∣mena of the Authors Engine are Examined.
  • CHAP. V. In which divers scattered Explications and other passages in Mr. Hobbs's Dialogue are examined.
  • CHAP. VI. Wherein other passages of Mr. Hobbs's Dialogue that concern the Author are examin'd
  • CHAP. VII. (Being an APPENDIX to the past Discourse) Wherein is examin'd what Mr. Hobbs teaches concerning Fluidity and Firmness.
• The Citations English'd
• A Summary of the Contents of the several Chapters.
  • CHAP. I.
  • CHAP. II.
  • CHAP. III.
  • CHAP. IV.
  • CHAP. V.
  • CHAP. VI.
  • CHAP. VII. (Being an Appendix to the past Discourse)
• A CATALOGUE Of all the PHILOSOPHICAL WORKS Published by our AUTHOR.