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New experiments physico-mechanicall, touching the spring of the air, and its effects (made for the most part, in a new pneumatical engine) / Written by way of letter to ... Charles, Lord Vicount of Dungarvan ... by the Honorable Robert Boyle.

The description and use of a new, portable, table air-pump and condensing engine. With a select variety of capital experiments. Which, together with the different parts of the apparatus and glasses are illustrated by upwards of forty copper-plate figures / by Benjamin Martin.

An experiment on a bird in an air pump: a philosopher is demonstrating the formation of a vacuum by withdrawing air from a flask containing a white cockatoo. Mezzotint by V. Green, 1769, after J. Wright of Derby.

New experiments physico-mechanicall, touching the spring of the air, and its effects : (made, for the most part, in a new pneumatical engine) written by way of letter to the Right Honorable Charles Lord Vicount of Dungarvan, eldest son to the Earl of Corke. / By the Honorable Robert Boyle Esq.

New experiments physico-mechanicall, touching the spring of the air, and its effects : (made, for the most part, in a new pneumatical engine) : written by way of letter to the Right Honorable Charles, Lord Vicount of Dungarvan, eldest son to the Earl of Corke / by the Honorable Robert Boyle, Esq.

Philosophia naturalis, quatuor partibus primarias corporum species, affectiones, vicissitudines, et differentias, exhibens / [Wolferdus Senguerdius].

New experiments physico-mechanical, touching the air.

Observations on the medical and surgical agency of the air pump : read before the British Association in 1835 / by Sir James Murray.

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New experiments physico-mechanicall, touching the spring of the air, and its effects : (made, for the most part, in a new pneumatical engine) written by way of letter to the Right Honorable Charles Lord Vicount of Dungarvan, eldest son to the Earl of Corke. / By the Honorable Robert Boyle Esq.

New experiments physico-mechanicall, touching the spring of the air, and its effects : (made, for the most part, in a new pneumatical engine) : written by way of letter to the Right Honorable Charles, Lord Vicount of Dungarvan, eldest son to the Earl of Corke / by the Honorable Robert Boyle, Esq.

Philosophia naturalis, quatuor partibus primarias corporum species, affectiones, vicissitudines, et differentias, exhibens / [Wolferdus Senguerdius].

New experiments physico-mechanical, touching the air.

Observations on the medical and surgical agency of the air pump : read before the British Association in 1835 / by Sir James Murray.