The sceptical chymist or, Chymico-physical doubts & paradoxes
Subtitle: touching the spagyrist's principles commonly call'd hypostatical, as they are wont to be propos'd and defended by the generality of alchymists. Whereunto is praemis'd part of another discourse relating to the same subject
By: by the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esq
Contributors: Burndy Library
Publisher: Printed by J. Cadwell for J. Crooke ...
Published: 1661
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 442
Subjects: Early works to 1800; Chemistry
Other titles: Sceptical chymist; Chymico-physical doubts & paradoxes; Boyle's Sceptical chemist; Physiological considerations touching the experiments wont to be employed to evince either the IV peripatetick elements.
Work titles: Sceptical chymist
Notes: Caption title on p. 1: Physiological considerations touching the experiments wont to be employed to evince either the IV peripatetick elements, or the III chymical principles of mixt bodies.

Second title leaf inserted after leaf D1 (p. 34): The sceptical chymist: or Chymico-physical doubts & paradoxes, touching the experiments whereby vulgar spagyrists are wont to endeavour to evince their salt, sulphur and mercury, to be the true principles of things ...

Title leaf printed in red and black.

Numerous errors in paging.

Errata on p. 441-442.

Signatures: pi1 A-Z8 2A-2E8 2F2 [par.]4.

The final leaf is blank.

Dibner Library. Heralds of science (1980 ed.), 39

ESTC (online) 37449

Wing (CD-ROM, 1996),  B4021

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SCDIRB copy 39088002863561 has bookplate: Herald of Science no. 39, Burndy Library ... gift of Bern Dibner.

SCDIRB copy has an old blind-ruled full leather binding, re-backed, with later gilt-lettered red leather spine label. Housed in a later box of brown cloth with leather spine, raised bands, and gilt-tooled spine with red spine label. Box is signed: bound by Krumin, Boston.