BOYLE, ROBERT. New Experiments Physico-Mechanicall, Touching the Spring of the Air, and its Effects, (Made, for the most part, in a New Pneumatical Engine). Oxford: H. Hall for T. Robinson, 1660. Engraved folding plate. 8vo, contemporary calf, worn, rebacked; library stamp on title and in other places, some type of title written over in ink, light marginal wear at beginning, some browning. FIRST EDITION of Boyle's first scientific publication. "In 1657, hearing of Otto von Guericke's invention of the airpump in Germany, Boyle... set his assistants to constructing one for his use... He was the first to demonstrate experimentally the truth of the belief, held since the time of Aristotle, that sound is conveyed by air and is not transmitted in a vacuum." PMM 143 (second edition); Dibner Heralds of Science 142 (second edition); Fulton Boyle 13; Wing B-3998.

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BOYLE, ROBERT. New Experiments Physico-Mechanicall, Touching the Spring of the Air, and its Effects, (Made, for the most part, in a New Pneumatical Engine). Oxford: H. Hall for T. Robinson, 1660. Engraved folding plate. 8vo, contemporary calf, worn, rebacked; library stamp on title and in other places, some type of title written over in ink, light marginal wear at beginning, some browning. FIRST EDITION of Boyle's first scientific publication. "In 1657, hearing of Otto von Guericke's invention of the airpump in Germany, Boyle... set his assistants to constructing one for his use... He was the first to demonstrate experimentally the truth of the belief, held since the time of Aristotle, that sound is conveyed by air and is not transmitted in a vacuum." PMM 143 (second edition); Dibner Heralds of Science 142 (second edition); Fulton Boyle 13; Wing B-3998.

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Stratford-upon-Avon Public Library, small ink stamp on title and in other places.