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Nova experimenta physico-mechanica de vi aëris elastica et eiusdem effectibus : facta maximam partem in nova machina pnevmatica

Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691 · 1680 · Genevae : Apud Samuelem de Tournes, MDCLXXX [1680] · 5 pictures

A 1680 Latin edition of Robert Boyle's experiments on air pressure, printed in Geneva by Samuel de Tournes for natural philosophers and scholars. Its pictures are the woodcut initial and printer's device with motto, then engraved plates of apparatus: glass globes, stands, tubes and pumps drawn in fine line with lettered keys, a clean scientific style a designer could borrow for technical diagrams.

Air · Air-pumps · Early works to 1800

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