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Tracts: containing I. Suspicions about some hidden qualities of the air; with an appendix touching celestial magnets, and some other particulars. II. Animadversions upon Mr. Hobbes's Problemata de vacuo. III. A discourse of the cause of att

The contents of the volume, including three additional tracts, each with special t.-p., are arranged differently from the copy described by Hazlitt (Bibl. coll. & notes, 3d ser., p. 22) and from other copies varying from Hazlitt's · General t.-p.--Preface to additional tract no. 1 "New experiments ..." (2 leaves).--Preface to "Suspicions ..." (2 leaves).--New experiments about the preservation of bodies in vacuo Boyliano, London, 1674 (1 p.l., 17 p.) [additional tract no. 1].--I. Suspicions about some hidden qualities in the air (no t.-p., 71 p.; p. 53-71: Of celestial & aerial magnets).--Observations about the growth of metals in their ore exposed to the air, London, 1674 (1 p.l., 25 p.) [additional tract no. 2].--Some additional experiments relating to the suspicions about the hidden qualities of the air, London, 1674 (1 p.l., 13 p.) [additional tract no. 3].--II. Animadversions upon Mr. Hobbes's Problemata de vacuo, London, 1674 (5 p.l., 94 p.).--III. Of the cause of attraction by suction, a paradox, London, 1674 (3 p.l., 67 p.) · ESTC · Wing (2nd ed., 1994)

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