Tracts
Subtitle: containing I. Suspicions about some hidden qualities of the air; with an appendix touching celestial magnets, and some other particulars. II. Animadversions upon Mr. Hobbes's Problemata de vacuo. III. A discourse of the cause of attraction by suction.
By: By the Honourable Robert Boyle ...
Contributors: Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679.
Publisher: Printed by W.G. and are to be sold by M. Pitt
Published: 1674
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Air -- Early works to 1800; Pneumatics -- Early works to 1800
Notes: The contents of the volume, including three additional tracts, each with special t.-p., are arranged differently from the copy described by Hazlitt (Bibl. coll. & notes, 3d ser., p. 22) and from other copies varying from Hazlitt's.
Table of contents: title: General t.-p.; title: Preface to additional tract no. 1 "New experiments ..." (2 leaves).; title: Preface to "Suspicions ..." (2 leaves).; title: New experiments about the preservation of bodies in vacuo Boyliano, London, 1674 (1 p.l., 17 p.) [additional tract no. 1].; title: I. Suspicions about some hidden qualities in the air (no t.-p., 71 p.; p. 53-71: Of celestial & aerial magnets).; title: Observations about the growth of metals in their ore exposed to the air, London, 1674 (1 p.l., 25 p.) [additional tract no. 2].; title: Some additional experiments relating to the suspicions about the hidden qualities of the air, London, 1674 (1 p.l., 13 p.) [additional tract no. 3].; title: II. Animadversions upon Mr. Hobbes's Problemata de vacuo, London, 1674 (5 p.l., 94 p.).; title: III. Of the cause of attraction by suction, a paradox, London, 1674 (3 p.l., 67 p.)