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Click to Enlarge Image   Title:   New experiments physico-mechanical, touching the spring of the air, and its effects, (made for the most part, in a new pneumatical engine) written by way of letter to the Right Honorable Charles, Lord Viscount of Dungarvan, eldest son to the Earl of Corke By the Honorable Robert Boyle, Esq.
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  Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691. 
RBR MILESTONE OF SCIENCE 025 
Physics 
1662 

Oxford, Printed by H. Hall, for Tho. Robinson, 1662. Includes--pt.1. New experiments physico-mechanical.--pt.2. An examen of Mr. T. Hobbes his Dialogus physicus de natura ae¨ris. As far as it concerns Mr. R. Boyle's Book of new experiments touching the spring of the air, etc. With an appendix touching Mr. Hobbes's Doctrine of Fluidity and firmness. --pt.3. A defence of the doctrine touching the spring and weight of the air, propos'd by Mr. R. Boyle in his New Physico-mechanical experiments; against the objections of Franciscus Linus. Wherewith the objector's funicular hypothesis is also examined. 
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