The works of the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esq., epitomiz'd by Richard Boulton ... ; illustrated with copper plates.
About this Item
Title
The works of the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esq., epitomiz'd by Richard Boulton ... ; illustrated with copper plates.
Author
Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.
Publication
London :: Printed for J. Phillips ... and J. Taylor ...,
1699-1700.
Rights/Permissions
This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. Searching, reading, printing, or downloading EEBO-TCP texts is reserved for the authorized users of these project partner institutions. Permission must be granted for subsequent distribution, in print or electronically, of this text, in whole or in part. Please contact project staff at eebotcp-info@umich.edu for further information or permissions.
Subject terms
Physics -- Early works to 1800.
Chemistry -- Early works to 1800.
Medicine -- 15th-18th centuries.
Link to this Item
http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A28936.0001.001
Cite this Item
"The works of the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esq., epitomiz'd by Richard Boulton ... ; illustrated with copper plates." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A28936.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 7, 2024.
Pages
EXPERIMENT I.
* 1.1FILINGS of crude Copper being put in∣to a Crystal Glass of a Conical Figure, with as much Spirit of Salt, as stood a Fingers breadth above the Filings; we cover'd the Ves∣sel with a Stopple exactly adapted to it; upon a Solution of the Copper, the Colour of the Liquor was a dark Brown; but it soon lost that Colour, and was clear again like common Wa∣ter; but when, by taking out the Stopple, the Liquor was again expos'd to the Air, it first acquir'd a brown Colour upon the Top, and that penetrating deeper into the Liquor by de∣grees;
descriptionPage 260
it, in a quarter of an hour, was wholly tinged with a brown Colour again; and so it successive∣ly laid down, and re-acquir'd that Colour, as it was stopp'd up, or expos'd to the Air, till at the last, being kept up a Month, it kept the brown Colour it had acquir'd in the Air unalter'd.