16 unnumbered pages, 203 pages, 12 unnumbered pages, 117 pages, 8 unnumbered pages, 102 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 2 leaves of plates (1 folded) ; 21 cm

New experiments physico-mechanical, touching the air.

464 pages in various pagings : illustrations

New experiments physico-mechanical 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 Robert Boyle.

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Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691. Examen of Mr. T. Hobbes his Dialogus physicus de naturâ aëris.

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New experiments physico-mechanical, touching the air.

New experiments physico-mechanical 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 Robert Boyle.