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Item Details
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| Author: |
Boyle, Robert |
| Title: |
Experiments and Considerations about the Porosity of Bodies, in Two Essays |
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London |
| Publisher: |
Printed for Sam. Smith |
| Date: |
1684 |
| Item # : |
204707 |
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416 |
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18 |
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| Rare Books & Manuscripts |
| Sale Date |
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11/19/2009 |
| Price realized |
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$ 1080 |
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| Description: |
| [4], 145 pp, [blank leaf]. [bound with] Boyle, Robert. New Experiments About the Preservation of Bodies in Vacuo Boyliano. [2], 17, [1], pp. London: Printed by William Godbid and Sold by Moses Pitt, 1674. Together, 2 works bound in 1. (12mo) 6¾x4, period calf rebacked with recent calf spine, new endpapers. First Editions. |
| Two titles by Boyle, the first dealing with physiology the second with pneumatics. "To a modern physiologist the Porosity of Bobies is of signal interest, for it marks the beginning of the study of osmotic pressure and of the exchange of substances through living membranes, which is at the basis of the regulation of all bodily processes. He commences by considering the skin and sweating, confirming Santorio's celebrated observations on loss of weight through insensible perspiration. There are interesting observations upon the absorption of medicines through the skin and through wounds. The second part of the essay deals with the porosity of solid bodies, and once more we find Boyle speaking in terms of atomic structure and arrangement. At the end there is an interesting section on the porosity of glass, in which the methods of staining glass are described at length." - Fulton. The second work is particularly scarce. WorldCat lists only three copies, at the University of Glasgow, MIT, and, bound as this one with the work on porosity, at C/W MARS. Wing B3966; Fulton 149; cf Wing B4054A; Fulton 119A . |
| Condition: |
| ex-City Library of Springfield, Mass., with old perforated stamps to title and following leaf, edges of preliminary and terminal blank leaves somewhat chipped, bottom edges last two leaves of first title slightly frayed and soiled, contemporary ownership signature of Oliver Noyes 1694, else very good. |
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