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BOYLE (ROBERT) The General History of the Air, FIRST EDITION, Awnsham and John Churchill, 1692
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BOYLE (ROBERT)
The General History of the Air, FIRST EDITION, woodcut illustrations in the text, light dampstain to approximately 10 pages, contemporary calf, red gilt morocco spine label [Wing B3981; Fulton 194], small 4to (190 x 153mm.), Awnsham and John Churchill, 1692
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Published posthumously, Boyle having died in 1691, this work "is of special interest in that it sums up his ultimate conclusions" (Fulton). Boyle discusses the ingredients and properties of air, including "a remarkable passage on the 'Structure' of the air which amounts virtually to a statement of the modern kinetic theory of gases". Includes sections on clouds, mist, wind and a series of barometric observations.
