Tracts Consisting of Observations About the Saltiness of the Sea: An Account of a Statistical Hygroscope And its Uses: Together with an Appendix about the Force of the Air's Moisture: A Fragment about the Natural and Preternatural State of Bodies ; To all which is premis'd A Skeptical Dialogue About the Positive or Privative Nature of Cold: With some Experiments of Mr. Boyle's referr'd to in that Discourse
London: E. Flesher for R. Davis, 1674. First edition. leather_bound. Nine parts in one, all with title pages. 17.5 x 11.5 cm. Boyle regarded today as the first modern chemist, one of the pioneers of modern experimental scientific method. Best known for Boyle's law, which describes the inversely proportional relationship..... More