AUTHOR: Boyle, Robert (1627-1691)
TITLE-PAGE TRANSCRIPTION: THE | Philosophical
Works | Of the HONOURABLE | ROBERT
BOYLE Esq; | Abridged, methodized, and disposed under the |
GENERAL HEADS | OF |
PHYSICS, STATICS, PNEUMATICS, | [each word on three lines
and bracked opposite the next, also on three lines] NATURAL
HISTORY, CHYMISTRY, and MEDICINE. |The whole
illustrated with NOTES, containing the
improve- | ments made in the several
Parts of natural and experimental |
Knowledge since his time. [rule 130 mm.] | In THREE
VOLUMES. | [rule 130 mm.] | By PETER SHAW, M. D. | [rule 130
mm.] | LONDON: | Printed for W. and J.
INNYS, at the West-End of St.
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Vol. 2-3: [As in volume 1, except for volume number].
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CONTENTS: Vol. 1. p. [3] Dedication: To the Right
Honourable the Earl of Burlington. p. i. A general preface. p. xvii. A
preliminary discourse, extracted from particular pieces of Mr. Boyle. p.
xxx. A catalogue of Mr. Boyle’s philosophical writings. p. xxxiii. The
contents of the first volume. p. 1. The usefulness of experimental philosophy.
pt. 1. p. 1. Shewing the advantages that accrue from natural philosophy to
the mind of man. pt. 2. p. 26. Shewing the usefulness of natural philosophy
to the art of medicine. Part 3. Shewing the advantages of philosophy to human
life. p. 173. Physics. The excellence and grounds of the mechanical philosophy.
p. 197. The origin of forms and qualities, serving as an introduction to
the mechanical philosophy. p. 297. A fundamental experiment made with nitre.
p. 305. The origin of fluidity and firmness. p. 369. The mechanical origin
of production of volatility and fixedness. p. 388. Experiments relating to
the superficial figures of fluids. p. 397. The atmospheres of consistent
bodies. p. 404. The nature, properties and effects of effluvia.p. 439. The
porosity of bodies considr’d. p. 460. The intestine motion of the parts
of solids. p. 464. Considerations upon the natural and preternatural states
of bodies, especially the air. p. 472. Observations upon the effects of languid
and unregarded motions. p. 496. The mechanical production of magnetism. p.
506. The mechanical production of electricity. p. 515. The mechanical causes
of precipitation. 526. The mechanical origin of corrosiveness and corrosibility.
p. 537. The mechanical production of tastes and odours. p. 550. The mechanical
origin of heat and cold. p. 573. Memoirs for an experimental history of cold.
v. 2. p. iii. Dedication: To the Right Honourable the Earl of Orrerry. p.
v. The contents to the second volume. p. 1. Experiments and observations
upon colours. p. 106. A free enquiry into the vulgar notion of nature. p.
150. An enquiry into the final causes of natural things. p. 197. Things above
reason considered. p. 229. The philosophical difficulties relating to the
resurrection consider’d. p. 239. The christian virtuoso. p. 264. The
high veneration man’s intellect owes to God. p. 285. Statistics.
Hydrostatical paradoxes proved and illustrated by experiments. p. 314.
Hydrostatics applied to ores, and to the Materia medica. p. 347. An hydrostatical
discourse, by way of answer to the objections of Dr. More and others against
some explanations of particular experiments; with farther considerations
thereon. p. 372. An essay-instrument, wherewith to examine if coin be
adulterate or counterfeit. p. 375. A statical hygroscope. p. 388. Fire and
flame weigh’d in a balance. p. 407. Pneumatics. Physico-mechanical
experiments to shew the spring and effects of the air. p. 652. A defence
of the physico-mechanical experiments, against the objections of Franc.
Linus; his hypothesis examin’d; and his answers to particular experiments
consider’d. p. 679. Mr. Hobb’s physical dialogue about the nature
of the air examin’d, with relation to the physico- mechanical
experiments of the spring and effects of the air. p. 698. Remarks upon Mr.
Hobb’s problems about a vacuum. p. 711. An inquiry into the cause of
attraction by suction. Vol. 3. p. [3]. To the right honourable the Lord Viscount
Shannon. p. i. The contents of the third volume. p. 3. Natural history. Heads
for the natural history of a country. p. 15. Memoirs for a general history
of the air. p. 75. Suspicions about some hidden qualities in the air. p.
99. The origin and virtues of gems. p. 144. Natural phosphori. p. 173. Artificial
phosphori. p. 214. Experiments and observations upon the saltness of the
sea. p. 232. The temperature of the subterranean and submarine regions, as
to heat and cold. p. 261. Chymistry, the sceptical chymist: or considerations
upon the experiments usually produced in favour of the four elements, and
the three chymical principles of mixed bodies. p. 364. Experiments and
observations upon the producibleness of chymical principles. p. 424. The
imperfections of the chymical doctrine of qualities. p. 447. Medicine. Memoirs
for the natural history of extravafated human blood; especially its spirit.
p. 495. Memoirs for the natural history of mineral waters. p. 521. Causes
of the wholesomeness and unwholesomness of the air. p. 545. The notion of
specific remedies, prov’d agreeable to mechanical philosophy: with the
advantages of simple remedies consider’d, and their use recommended.
p. 595. Some uncommon observations upon vitiated sight. p. 601. A collection
of remedies, gain’d from particular experiments, made in the curative
part of medicine. p. 681. A general index to the three
volumes.
ILLUSTRATIONS: Vol. 2: Plate 1. An
equilatero-triangular prism. Plate. 2. Fig. 2-4. Demonstrate that
in all fluids, the upper parts gravitate on the lower. Fig. 5-6. Demonstrate
a lighter fluid will gravitate upon a heavier. Fig. 7-8. Demonstrate
that if a body be wholly, or in part, immersed below the surface of water,
its lower part will be pressed upwards by the water contiguous to it, from
beneath. Fig. 9. Demonstrates a competent pressure of an external fluid,
is, alone, sufficient to raise the water in pumps. Fig. 10-11. Plate
3. Fig. 12-16. Demonstrate the direct pressure sustain’d by a body,
placed anywhere under water, with its upper surface parallel to the horizon,
is that of a column of water, whose base is the horizontal superficies of
the body, and height the perpendicular depth of the water... Fig. 18-19.
Demonstrate that a body, immersed in a fluid, sustains a lateral pressure
therefrom; which increases with the depth whereto ‘tis plunged. Fig.
20--21. Demonstrate that water will as well depress, as support a body
specifically lighter than itself. Plate 4. Fig. 22. Demonstrates that,
notwithstanding the doctrine of positive levity, an oil, lighter than water,
may be kept immersed in that fluid. Fig. 23. Demonstrates that ascent and
flux of water in syphons are explicable without supposing a Fuga vacui. Fig.
24-25 demonstrate that the most ponderous solid body we know, immersed
in water to a depth exceeding that of twenty times its own thickness, will
float, if it be there fenced from the direct pressure of the incumbent fluid.
Plate 5. Fig. 26. The hydrostatical balance. Fig. 27-29. An
essay-instrument, wherewith to examine if coin be adulterate or counterfeit.
Plate 6-7. Fig. 30-40. The air-pump described. Plate 8-9.
Fig. 42-43. The air-pump further improved. Plate 10. Fig. 44. Mercury
rais’d by the spring of a little included air. Fig. 45-46. A fountain
maid by the spring of uncompressed air. Fig. 47. Mercury rises no higher
by suction, than the weight of the atmosphere impels it. Plate 11. Fig. 48.
The greatest height to which water can be rais’d by attraction or sucking
pumps. Fig. 49-51. Portable barometers. Fig. 52. The pressure of the
external air being taken off, the sucker of a syringe is easily drawn up,
tho’ the lower orifice be stopp’d. Fig. 53. The ascent of liquors
in syringes owing to the pressure of the air. Plate 12. Fig. 54. The adhesion
of cupping-glasses depends upon the pressure of the air. Fig. 55-56.
A great weight rais’d by a cupping-glass without heat. Fig. 57.
Bellows, with the nose stopp’d, open of themselves, when the pressure
of the air is taken off. Fig. 58. Plate 13. Fig. 59-60. An attempt to
examine the hypothesis of aether, as to its existence. Fig. 61. A light body
falling in the exhausted receiver. Fig. 62. Light produced in the exhausted
receiver. Plate 14. Fig. 63. Heat produced by attrition in the exhausted
receiver. Fig. 64. An attempt to measure the force of the spring of included
air. Fig. 65-66. An easy way of making a small quantity of included
air raise a great weight. Fig. 67. Two marbles strongly join’d together,
separated by withdrawing the air from them. Plate 15. Fig. 68. A description
of an engine with a double barrel for exhausting the air. Fig. 69. A mercurial
gage. Fig. 72-73. A condenser. Plate 16. Fig. 74-76. To make and
remove artificial air from one receiver into another. Plate 17. Fig. 77-78.
To filter air thro’ water. Fig. 79. How to condense and rarify the same
parcel of air. Plate 18. Fig. 80. A wind-gun. Fig. 81. An engine wherewith
to distil in vacuo. Plate 19. Fig. 83-84. The pressure and spring of
the air confirm’d. Fig. 85. The elastic force of compress’d and
diluted air measure. Fig. 86. The weight and spring of the air asserted.
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NOTES: “The first ‘collected’ edition
of Boyle in English was the Epitome of Richard Boulton, 1699-1700,
notwithstanding which, however, ‘a well digested, and compendious collection
of all Mr. Boyle’s philosophical writings, has been generally wished
for, and declared, by unexceptionable judges, to be greatly wanting’
(General Preface to this edition). This edition, and a similar edition of
Bacon, were the most valuable literary works of the physician Peter Shaw,
who besides his medical practice, was ‘usefully employed in facilitating
the study of chemistry in England’. (DNB) Among the services rendered
by Shaw to his readers is the provision of a catalogue of Boyles writings,
with a note of their first, and ‘best’, editions. There is also
an index.” — Bernard Quaritch catalogue no. 1224
PROVENANCE: : John Davis. Boston Society of Natural
History.
KEYWORDS: 1. Physics. 2. Chemistry. 3. Medicine. 4.
Science. I. Shaw, Peter (1694-1763)
LOCATION: QC3.B8 1725
OTHER CALIFORNIA LOCATIONS: UCLA; UC Berkeley,
Bancroft Library; Gemological Institute of America, Santa Monica; San
Francisco Public Library
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