New experiments physico-mechanical, touching the air

Abstract

Title taken from half-title. Each of the three works has special t. p. and separate paging; the third has separate signatures. Contains the first formulation of Boyle's law. "A catalogue of all the philosophical works published by our author": p. [1]-[2] at end. Edited by Robert Sharrock. Reproduction of original in Huntington Library. New experiments physico-mechanical, touching the spring of the air, and its effects, made, for the most part, in a new pnuematical [sic] engine : written by way of letter to the Right Honorable Charles Lord Vicount of Dungarvan, eldest son to the Earl of Corke / by the Honorable Robert Boyle Esq. -- 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 examin'd / by the author of those experiments -- An examen of Mr. T. Hobbs his Dialogus physicus de naturâ aëris, as far as it concerns Mr. Boyle's book of New experiments touching the spring of the air, &c. : with an appendix touching Mr. Hobbs's doctrine of fluidity and firmness / by the author of those experiments.