Lot 200
Critique of Pascal.- Boyle (Robert) Hydrostatical Paradoxes, Made out by New Experiments, (For the most part Physical and Easie), first edition, Oxford, William Hall, for Richard Davis, 1666.
Hammer Price: £1,000
Description
Critique of Pascal.- Boyle (Robert) Hydrostatical Paradoxes, Made out by New Experiments, (For the most part Physical and Easie), first edition, title in red and black, 3 folding engraved plates, lacking b1 (imprimatur f.) & b2 (Contents) as often, few neat repairs to title fore-margin, occasional passage-marking in later pencil, some very light marginal damp-staining, attractive later marbled calf, rebacked, [Fulton 72; Madan III, 2738; Wing B3985], 8vo, Oxford, William Hall, for Richard Davis, 1666.
⁂ "Hydrostatical Paradoxes is both a penetrating critique of Pascal's work on hydrostatics, full of acute observations upon Pascal's experimental method, and a presentation of a series of important and ingenious experiments upon fluid pressure" (DSB).
Description
Critique of Pascal.- Boyle (Robert) Hydrostatical Paradoxes, Made out by New Experiments, (For the most part Physical and Easie), first edition, title in red and black, 3 folding engraved plates, lacking b1 (imprimatur f.) & b2 (Contents) as often, few neat repairs to title fore-margin, occasional passage-marking in later pencil, some very light marginal damp-staining, attractive later marbled calf, rebacked, [Fulton 72; Madan III, 2738; Wing B3985], 8vo, Oxford, William Hall, for Richard Davis, 1666.
⁂ "Hydrostatical Paradoxes is both a penetrating critique of Pascal's work on hydrostatics, full of acute observations upon Pascal's experimental method, and a presentation of a series of important and ingenious experiments upon fluid pressure" (DSB).
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