Tracts consisting of observations about the saltness of the sea
Subtitle: an account of a statical hygroscope and its uses : together with an appendix about the force of the air's moisture : a fragment about the natural and preternatural state of bodies
By: by Robert Boyle ; to all which is premis'd a sceptical dialogue about the positive or privative nature of cold ; with some experiments of Mr. Boyl's [sic] referr'd to in that discourse ; by a member of the Royal Society
Series: Early English books online; Early English books, 1641-1700 -- 446:29
Publisher: Printed by E. Fiesher for R. Davis ...
Published: 1674
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Physics; Early works to 1800; Seawater; Cold; Humidity; Science
Other titles: Statical hygroscope.; New experiment and other instances of the efficacy of the air's moisture.
Notes: "A statical hygroscope" and "A new experiment and other instances of the efficacy of the air's moisture" each have special t.p. dated 1673.

Wing B4053

Arber's Term. cat. I 154

Madan 3005

Fulton, J. Bibl. of Robert Boyle 113

English short title catalogue, R17503

Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (2nd ed. 1994), B4053

Fulton, John. Bibliography of the Honourable Robert Boyle (2nd ed.), 113

Madan, F. Oxford books, volume 3, 3005
Table of contents: title: Of the positive or privative nature od cold: a sceptical dialogue between Carmeades, Themistius, Eleutherius, Philoponus; title: Two problems about cold, grounded on new experiments, and proposed in a letter to a friend / by the honourable Robert Boyle; title: An attempt to manifest and measure the great expansive force of freezing water / by the honourable Robert Boyle; title: A new experiment about the production of cold by the conflict of bodies, appearing to make an ebullition / by the honourable Robert Boyle; title: Observations and experiments about the saltness of the sea / by the honourable Robert Boyle; title: The fourth section belonging to the tract formerly publish'd under the title, Relations about the bottom of the sea / by the honourable Robert Boyle; title: A paradox of the natural and preternatural state of bodies, especially in the air / by the honourable Robert Boyle; title: A statical hygroscope proposed to be further tryed, together with a brief account of the utilities of hygroscopes / by the honourable Robert Boyle, Fellow of the Royal Society; title: A new experiment and other instances of the efficacy of the air's moisture: subjoyn'd by way of appendix to his statical hygroscope / by the honourable Robert Boyle.