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BOYLE, Robert. Some Considerations... second edit

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Oxford: Henn & Hall, Printer to the University, for Ric Davis, 1664. 2 parts in 1. 4to (194 x 160 mm). With two title pages and half-titles, appendix, author's "label title" bound-in before the index. Contemporary calf, covers double ruled in blind with floral cornerpieces, spine with red lettering label in gilt, four raised bands. Condition: title page with ink notation, light darkening to upper margin, ink notations to a central blank and other marginalia; binding with sort split at upper joint, some light rubbing. Provenance: Sr. Rd. Bempde Johnstone (bookplate); initials "A. M." to upper margin of title. second edition. Fulton's "A" issue. "Robert Boyle was the best-known English scientist of his day, and the greatest experimental scientist of the mid-seventeenth century. He was a leading proponent of the 'new learning' propagated by the founders of the Royal Society (which he was one), an eminent natural philosopher, an original chemist and worthy exponent of the view that the study of nature conduces to belief in divinity" (Printing and the Mind of Man, 141). Fulton 51.

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