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BOYLE (ROBERT) Hydrostatical Paradoxes, Made out by New Experiments, (for the Most Part Physical and Easie), first edition, Oxford, Richard Davis, 1666
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BOYLE (ROBERT)
Hydrostatical Paradoxes, Made out by New Experiments, (for the Most Part Physical and Easie), first edition, imprimatur leaf, title printed in red and black with woodcut ornament, corner of one preface leaf torn away just touching 2 letters, 3 folding engraved plates, later calf, rebacked, gilt flower tools on spine, slightly rubbed [Wing B3985; Fulton 72; Madan, III, 2738], 8vo, Oxford, Richard Davis, 1666
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"Hydrostatical Paradoxes is both a penetrating critique of Pascal's work on hydrostatics, full of acute observations upon Pascal's experimental method, and a presentation of a series of important and ingenious experiments upon fluid pressure" (DSB).





















