The Works of the Honourable Robert Boyle. In Six Volumes to which is prefixed The Life of the Author.

BOYLE, Robert.

$2,800.00

Item Number: 131348

London: Printed for J. and F. Rivington, L. Davis, E. Johnston, S. Crowder, et al., 1772.

New edition of the complete works of the first modern chemist and pioneer in modern experimental scientific method. Quarto, six volumes, bound in full calf with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, red morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, illustrated with 24 engraved plates (most folding), frontispiece portrait of Boyle to volume one. In near fine condition. Rebacked.

Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, and inventor Robery Boyle was the "best known English scientist of his day, and the greatest experimental scientist of the mid-17th century" (PMM 141). His famous experiments on the properties of air led to the discovery of the inverse ratio between air pressure and volume, still known as Boyle's Law. "There is little that Boyle did not touch; and almost every branch of modern science can trace phases of its origin in his writings" (Fulton, xi).