Tracts [electronic resource] : consisting of observations about the saltness of the sea: an account of a statical hygroscope and its uses: together with an appendix about the force of the air's moisture: a fragment about the natural and preternatural state of bodies. / By the Honourable Robert Boyle. ; To all which is premis'd a sceptical dialogue about the positive or privative nature of cold: with some experiments of Mr. Boyle's referr'd to in that discourse. By a member of the Royal Society.
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| Other title: | Relations about the bottom of the sea. Of the positive or privative nature of cold. Two problems about cold, grounded on new experiments. Observations and experiments about the saltness of the sea. Paradox of the natural and preternatural state of bodies, especially of the air. Statical hygroscope proposed to be farther tryed. New experiment and other instances of the efficacy of the air's moisture. |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Sold by S. Smith at the Prince's Arms in St. Paul's Church-yard.,
1690.
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| Edition: | The Second Edition. |
| Series: | Early English books online.
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Table of Contents:
- Of the positive or privative nature of cold, a sceptical dialogue ...
- Two problems about cold, grounded on new experiments, and proposed in a letter to a friend: an attempt to manifest and measure the great expansive force of freezing water; a new experiment about the production of cold by the conflict of bodies appearing to make an ebullition
- Observations and experiments about the saltness of the sea
- The fourth section belonging to the tract formerly published under the title, Relations about the bottom of the sea
- A paradox of the natural and preternatural state of bodies, especially of the air
- A statical hygroscope proposed to be farther tryed, in a letter to H. Oldenburgh Esq. ...
- A new experiment and other instances of the efficacy of the air's moisture.