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Boyle, Robert
Boyle, Robert
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26. Boyle, Robert. Opera Varia. Engraved portrait, 5 engraved plates (4 folding). 11 parts in 2 volumes. 4to, contemporary boards, gilt-lettered spine-labels; some foxing, some worming at rear gutter of volume 2, Justinianus Klug contemporary ink ex-libris. Geneva: Samuel de Tournes , 1680-95 [2000/3000] Second collected edition in Latin of Boyle's works. The general and individual part titles have the "Genevae" rather than "Coloniae Allobrogum" imprint. Fulton 247. "During Robert Boyle's lifetime there was great demand for his writings not only in England but on the Continent . . . Hence it is no surprise that a collected edition appeared during his lifetime, to wit, the Geneva Opera Varia of 1677 (reprinted in 1680) . . . Separate Latin translations from Geneva, sometimes bound with the preceding, continued to appear until 1696" (Fulton). Includes the following works: Nova Experimenta Physico-Mechanica...[with Defensio Doctrinae de Elatere et Gravitate...ubi...mira aeris...rarefactio detecta etc. (last title listed separately by Fulton, the signatures are continuous through all 3)]. [12], 154, [6], [14], 80, [6], [4], 19 pages * Paradoxa Hydrostatica. [16], 72 pages * Tentamina Quaedam Physiologica. [4], 60], 94, 18 pages (lacks final blank) * Chymista Sceptics. [12], 148 pages * Experimenta et Considerationes de Coloribus. [20], 168, [8] pages * Introductio ad Historiam Qualitatum Particularium. [8], 18, 12, 12, 20, 9, 8 [i.e. 7] pages * Tractatus, in Quibus Continentur Suspiciones de Latentibus...[4], 87 pages * Exercitationes de Atmosphaeris...[2], 12, 55, [1], 21, [1], [2], 9 pages * Specimen de Gemmarum Origine...[6], 58 pages * Cogitationes de S. Scripturae stylo. [16], 87 pages. Bound in the second volume are 8 additional tracts published by Samuel de Tournes: Appaatus ad Historiam Naturalem Sanguinis Humani. [8], 91 pages. 1686. Fulton 148 * Tentamen Porologicum. [6], 46 pages (lacks 2 blanks). 1686. Fulton 151 * Observationes de Salsedine Maris. 23 pages. 1686. Fulton 115 * Nova Experimenta Pneumatica Respirationem Spectantia. 47 pages. 1686. Fulton 222B * De Specificorum Remediorum cum Corpusculari Philosophia Concordia. [8], 64 pages. 1687. Fulton 168A * Origio Formarum et Qualitatum Juxta Philosophiam Corpuscularem. [32], 147 pages. 1688. Fulton 82A * Tractaus de ipsa natura...[16], 111 pages. 1688. Fulton 172 * Examen Dialogi Physici domini T. Hobb[2]s...[8], 64, [3] pages. 1695. Fulton 24B.
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