Item #003925 The General History of the Air, designed and begun by the Honble Robert Boyle Esq. Robert BOYLE.
The General History of the Air, designed and begun by the Honble Robert Boyle Esq.
The General History of the Air, designed and begun by the Honble Robert Boyle Esq.
The General History of the Air, designed and begun by the Honble Robert Boyle Esq.
The General History of the Air, designed and begun by the Honble Robert Boyle Esq.
The General History of the Air, designed and begun by the Honble Robert Boyle Esq.
The General History of the Air, designed and begun by the Honble Robert Boyle Esq.
The General History of the Air, designed and begun by the Honble Robert Boyle Esq.
The General History of the Air, designed and begun by the Honble Robert Boyle Esq.
The General History of the Air, designed and begun by the Honble Robert Boyle Esq.
The General History of the Air, designed and begun by the Honble Robert Boyle Esq.
The General History of the Air, designed and begun by the Honble Robert Boyle Esq.
The General History of the Air, designed and begun by the Honble Robert Boyle Esq.
The General History of the Air, designed and begun by the Honble Robert Boyle Esq.
The General History of the Air, designed and begun by the Honble Robert Boyle Esq.
The General History of the Air, designed and begun by the Honble Robert Boyle Esq.
The General History of the Air, designed and begun by the Honble Robert Boyle Esq.
The General History of the Air, designed and begun by the Honble Robert Boyle Esq.
The General History of the Air, designed and begun by the Honble Robert Boyle Esq.
The General History of the Air, designed and begun by the Honble Robert Boyle Esq.
The General History of the Air, designed and begun by the Honble Robert Boyle Esq.
The General History of the Air, designed and begun by the Honble Robert Boyle Esq.
The General History of the Air, designed and begun by the Honble Robert Boyle Esq.
The General History of the Air, designed and begun by the Honble Robert Boyle Esq.
The General History of the Air, designed and begun by the Honble Robert Boyle Esq.
The General History of the Air, designed and begun by the Honble Robert Boyle Esq.
The General History of the Air, designed and begun by the Honble Robert Boyle Esq.
The General History of the Air, designed and begun by the Honble Robert Boyle Esq.
The General History of the Air, designed and begun by the Honble Robert Boyle Esq.
The General History of the Air, designed and begun by the Honble Robert Boyle Esq.
The General History of the Air, designed and begun by the Honble Robert Boyle Esq.
The General History of the Air, designed and begun by the Honble Robert Boyle Esq.
The General History of the Air, designed and begun by the Honble Robert Boyle Esq.
The General History of the Air, designed and begun by the Honble Robert Boyle Esq.
The General History of the Air, designed and begun by the Honble Robert Boyle Esq.
The General History of the Air, designed and begun by the Honble Robert Boyle Esq.
The General History of the Air, designed and begun by the Honble Robert Boyle Esq.
The General History of the Air, designed and begun by the Honble Robert Boyle Esq.
The General History of the Air, designed and begun by the Honble Robert Boyle Esq.
The General History of the Air, designed and begun by the Honble Robert Boyle Esq.
The General History of the Air, designed and begun by the Honble Robert Boyle Esq.
The General History of the Air, designed and begun by the Honble Robert Boyle Esq.

The General History of the Air, designed and begun by the Honble Robert Boyle Esq.

London: Printed for Awnsham and John Churchill, 1692.

1st Edition. Hardcover. Good. Item #003925

4to (185 x 157 mm). xii, 259 [1] pp., title within double-line border, woodcut illustrations in text, final page with publisher's adverts; preliminary pages ix--xii misbound between p. 258 and 259; section titles within continuous pagination. Signatures: A4 a2 B-Z4 Aa-Kk4 Ll2. Text contains "A register kept by Mr. Locke in Oxford" (p. 104-132) and "A letter to the author" [from John Locke] (p. 137-141). Contemporary half calf and marbled paper of card boards, spine with 5 raised bands and faint gilt lettering in second compartment (leather rubbed, boards worn with paper chipped at outer margins, corners heavily scuffed, first free endpaper gone). Text with light browning; some dust- and finger soiling mostly to outer margins; a few ink smudges and smaller stains in places; frequent but tiny wormholes and -tracks mostly at lower blank margin and not affecting text; few leaves creased; occasional dog-earing. Provenance: William Anderson (ownership inscription on title page); (?)Levins Brough (inscribed on front pastedown). Good working copy in untouched binding. ----

RARE FIRST EDITION, the issue without woodcut diagrams on any of the 48 section titles. The first clear statement on the kinetic theory of gases. Posthumously published, it was seen through the press by John Locke, Boyle's friend, and contains some of Locke's own meteorological observations. The work is of considerable importance in the history of science - the views Boyle expressed here became the basis for the phlogiston theory of combustion, and it is the product of his life's work.
"Boyle's scientific life began and ended with studies of the air, and his last work on the subject, published posthumously, is of special interest in that it sums up his ultimate conclusions ... a most remarkable passage on the 'Structure' of the air .. amounts virtually to a statement of the modern kinetic theory of gases ... The later parts of the book are taken up with discussions of clouds, mist, wind, and an important series of barometric observations based on 'A Register kept by Mr (John) Locke, in Oxford' (from June 1666 to June 1683) ... A long and interesting letter from Locke, dated 'Ch. Ch. 5° May, 1666' relating to the Barometer, is reprinted on pages 137-41" (Fulton 194).
References: Fulton, A Bibliography of the Honorable Robert Boyle, p. 133-34 (no. 194); Wing, B3981; ESTC R11260. - Visit our website to see more images!

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