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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.
  • 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.
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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.

    Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691 | Date: 1660
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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.

    Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691 | Date: 1660
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    Philosophia naturalis, quatuor partibus primarias corporum species, affectiones, vicissitudines, et differentias, exhibens / [Wolferdus Senguerdius].

    Senguerdius, Wolferdus, 1646-1724. | Date: 1680
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    New experiments physico-mechanical, touching the air.

    Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691 | Date: [1682]
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    Observations on the medical and surgical agency of the air pump : read before the British Association in 1835 / by Sir James Murray.

    Murray, John, 1809-1898. | Date: 1836
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