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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.