An essay of the great effects of even languid and unheeded motion. :

Whereunto is annexed an experimental discourse of some little observed causes of the insalubrity and salubrity of the air and its effects. By the Honourable Robert Boyle, Fellow of the Royal Society.
Bibliographic Details
Main Creator: Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published / Created: London : sold by Sam. Smith at the Prince's Arms in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1690.
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Notes:"An experimental discourse of some unheeded causes of the insalubrity and salubrity of the air" has separate dated title page, pagination, and register.

Part 2 includes "A short supplement to the essay of the great effects of even languid and unheeded local motion" (p. 129-149).

The last leaf is blank.

Signatures: A⁴B-I⁸²A⁴²B-F⁸³E-H⁸³I²³K-L⁸. [-I7,I8,²F7,²F8,³E1,³G⁸]

Leaf ³E1 is cancelled by quires ²E-F; leaf ³G8 is cancelled by quires ³H-L.

A reissue of the 1685 edition, with cancel title page and sub-title page.

For full collation see Fulton (F. J.): Bibliography of Robert Boyle (Oxford Bibliographical Society. Transactions III, 1931).

Physical description: [8], 123, [5]; [8], 76, 51-113, [1], 129-158, [2] p. ; 8⁰.

Citations/References: Wing (2nd ed., 1994), B3950

Citations/References: Fulton, J. Boyle, 165

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