(Hidden Qualities of the Air. Latin.) Tractatus. In quibus continentur, I. Suspiciones de Latentibus quibusdam Qualitatibus Aeris; Una cum Appendice de Magnetibus Coeletsibus [sic], Nonnullisque argumentis aliis. II. Animadversiones in D. Hobbesii Porblemata de Vacuo. III. Dissertatio de Causa Attractionis per Suctionem [...]

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Published two years after the English edition. 'It is a curious circumstance in scientific history that Boyle's close approach to the theory of oxidation should have appeared in the same year as Mayow's Tractatus Quinque. Independently of one another, and possibly when both were working in Oxford, they set themselves down as believing that during combustion certain 'particles' are extracted from the air [...] they entitle Boyle to share with Mayow the credit of first enunciation of the modern theory of oxidation' (Fulton pp. 83-4).

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FIRST LATIN EDITION, divisional titles, terminal advertisements and 'admonition to the binder', as called for; lightly toned in parts with the odd spot; pp. [6], 61, 15, [[3], 111, [5], 73, [9], 15, [17], 12mo; contemporary full mottled calf, spine direct lettered and attractively gilt in compartments between raised bands, gilt roll at board edges, red speckled edges; scuffed, with the upper hinge started and the corners bumped, but a pleasing copy.

Bibliography: (Fulton 120; Wing B4051)

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