The Works of the Honourable Robert Boyle: In Six Volumes. To which is Prefixed the Life of the Author ...

Robert Boyle

J. and F. Rivington, 1772 - 800 pagine

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The CONTENTS of the SECOND VOLUME	i

transfufing Blood out of one live Animal into another 152	v

Tracts of a Diſcovery of the admirable Rarefaction of the Air New Obfer	xv

Memoirs for the natural Hiſtory of human Blood eſpecially the Spirit of that	xxiv

I	ccxxxv

Effects made for the most part in a new Pneumatical Engine written	1

New Experiments touching the Condenfation of the Air by mere Cold	3

Some Specimens of an Attempt to make Chymical Experiments uſeful to illuftrate the Notions of the Corpufcular Philofophy 354	4

Of abfolute Reft in Bodies An Effay of the inteftine Motions of the Par ticles of quiefcent Solids where the abfolute Reſt of Bodies is called in quef tion	443

Of doing by Phyfical Knowledge what is wont to require Manual Skill or that	457

The SCEPTICAL CHYMIST or ChymicoPhyfical Doubts and Paradoxes touching the Experiments whereby Vulgar Spagyrifts are wont to endeavou...	458

New Experiments and Obfervations touching Cold or an Experimental Hiſtory	462

Phyfiological Confiderations touching the Experiments wont to be employed to evince either the four Peripatetic Elements or the three Chymical Prin...	464

Effay X Of Mens great Ignorance of the Ufes of Natural Things or that	470

The Sceptical Chymift Part I	474

Part II	493

A Phyficochymical Effay containing an Experiment with fome Confiderations	5

Of the Uſefulneſs of Natural Philofophy Part II Sect I Of its Uſefulneſs	64

An hiſtorical Account of a ſtrangely felfmoving Liquor	71

Of the high Veneration Mans Intellect owes to God peculiar for his Wifdom	130

JI A Defence of the Doctrine touching the Spring and Weight of the Air pro	132

A way of preferving Birds taken out of the Egg and other ſmall Fatufes	138

Trials	153

to the Right Honourable the Lord Clifford and Dungarvan Whereto is annexed	175

An Explication of Rarefaction	180

An Examen of Mr T Hobbess Dialogus Phyficus de Naturâ Aëris as far as	186

Some Motives to the LOVE OF GOD pathetically difcourfed of in a Letter to	243

Some Confiderations touching the Style of the Holy Scriptures extracted from	247

The Martyrdom of Theodora and of Didymus	255

VOL L	305

Of the Temperature of the Subterraneal Regions as to Heat and Cold 326	309

Medicinal Experiments or a Collection of choice and fafe Remedies for the moſt	312

Occafional Reflections upon feveral Subjects whereto is premiſed a Difcourfe	323

Of the Temperature of the Submarine Regions as to Heat and Cold	342

Relations about the Bottom of the Sea	349

New Pneumatical Experiments about Refpiration	355

touching the differing Parts and Redintegration of SaltPetre	359

The Hiftory of Fluidity and Firmness The firſt Part of Fluidity	377

Some Confiderations touching the Uſefulneſs of Experimental Natural Philofo	392

The Hiftory of Fluidity and Firmness The fecond Part of Firmness	401

Part III	510

An Obfervatfon of a Spot in the Sun	511

Part IV	520

Part V	543

Part VI	561

Tracts containing new Experiments touching the Relation betwixt Flame	562

New Experiments about the Relation between Air and the Flamma Vitalis	584

Parts of an Appendix defigned to be added to the Sceptical Chymiſt	587

An Attempt to produce Living Creatures in Vacuo Boyliano	590

Of the Producibleneſs of Chymical Principles Part I Of Salt 594	594

An Hydroftatical Difcourfe occafioned by the Objections of the learned	596

Of the Produciblenefs of Spirits Part II 609	609

Of the Produciblenefs of Sulphurs Part III	620

Of the Production of Mercury Part IV	629

New Experiments of the Pofitive or Relative Levity of Bodies under Water	635

Of the Producibleness of Phlegm or Water Part V	651

Of the Producibleneſs of Earth Part VI	655

New Experiments about the Preſſure of the Airs Spring on Bodies under	659

Experiments and Confiderations touching Colours firft occafionally written among fome other Effays to a Friend and now fuffered to come abroad a...	662

The Experimental Hiftory of Colours The firſt Part	668

The Experimental Hiſtory of Colours Part II Of the Nature of White nefs and Blackness	708

The Experimental Hiftory of Colours begun Part II Containing pro mifcuous Experiments about Colours 724	786

A fhort Account of fome Obfervations made by Mr Boyle about a Diamond that hines in the dark	789

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Titolo	The Works of the Honourable Robert Boyle: In Six Volumes. To which is Prefixed the Life of the Author ... Volume 1 di The Works of the Honourable Robert Boyle: In Six Volumes. To which is Prefixed the Life of the Author, Robert Boyle
Autore	Robert Boyle
Curatore	Thomas Birch
Editore	J. and F. Rivington, 1772
Provenienza dell'originale	la University of California
Digitalizzato	12 ott 2011
Lunghezza	800 pagine

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