BOYLE, ROBERT. The Sceptical Chymist: or Chymico-Physical Doubts & Paradoxes... London: J. Cadwell for J. Crooke, 1661. 2 titles printed in red and black. 8vo, 170 x 107 mm. (6 11/16 x 4 5/16 in.), modern panelled calf in the antique style, red morocco lettering piece on spine; second title, leaf R2, and last 3 leaves in very skillful facsimile on old paper (but present in original are 2 of the 3 leaves [2 and 3] pp. 439-42 from another copy), lacks final blank (4), small owner's stamp on 4 lower margins. FIRST EDITION. Wing B4021; Fulton 33; Grolier/Horblit 14 ("A masterpiece of scientific literature"); PMM 141. A VERY INTERESTING COPY WITH NUMEROUS CORRECTIONS in a contemporary hand (and possibly by Boyle). Signatures B,C and D contain 16 contemporary manuscript corrections only one of which is referred to in the printed errata on pp. 441-42, and only one other is incorporated in the corrected second edition (1679-80). These corrections suggest the involvement of someone well aware of the author's intentions. The Dawson's catalogue containing the description of this copy cites: "For example, on p. 21 in the penultimate line 'Firiness' which is nonsense in the context has been corrected to 'fixednes' which makes sense and is used by Boyle in the same sense on pp. 86 and 87. Yet 'firiness' remains in the second edition. The hand of this correction is very like Boyle's normal epistolary hand. It is quite possible that Boyle sent these corrected sheets to the printer and that instead of being used for correction they were inadvertently included with one of the copies to be sold." In the additional leaves at end (pp. 437-42), Boyle apologizes for the somewhat numerous errata: "The Authors constant Absence from the Presse, whilst the former Treatise was Printing, and the Nature of the Subject it self, wherewith ordinary Composers are not wont to be at all acquainted, will, 'tis hop'd, procure the Readers Excuse, till the next Edition, if the Errata be somewhat numerous...For the Author now perceives that through the fault of those to whom he had committed the former Treatise in loose Sheets, some Papers that belonged to it, have altogether miscarryed..." "Boyle distinguished between mixtures and compounds and tried to understand the latter in terms of the simpler chemical entities from which they could be constructed. His argument was designed to lead chemists away from the pure empiricism of his predecessors and to stress the theoretical, experimental and mechanistic elements of chemical science. The Sceptical Chymist is concerned with the relations between chemical substances rather than with transmuting one metal into another or the manufacture of drugs. In this sense the book must be considered as one of the most significant milestones on the way to the chemical revoltion of lavoisier in the late eighteenth century"--PMM.
BOYLE, ROBERT. The Sceptical Chymist: or Chymico-Physical Doubts & Paradoxes... London: J. Cadwell for J. Crooke, 1661. 2 titles printed in red and black. 8vo, 170 x 107 mm. (6 11/16 x 4 5/16 in.), modern panelled calf in the antique style, red morocco lettering piece on spine; second title, leaf R2, and last 3 leaves in very skillful facsimile on old paper (but present in original are 2 of the 3 leaves [2 and 3] pp. 439-42 from another copy), lacks final blank (4), small owner's stamp on 4 lower margins. FIRST EDITION. Wing B4021; Fulton 33; Grolier/Horblit 14 ("A masterpiece of scientific literature"); PMM 141. A VERY INTERESTING COPY WITH NUMEROUS CORRECTIONS in a contemporary hand (and possibly by Boyle). Signatures B,C and D contain 16 contemporary manuscript corrections only one of which is referred to in the printed errata on pp. 441-42, and only one other is incorporated in the corrected second edition (1679-80). These corrections suggest the involvement of someone well aware of the author's intentions. The Dawson's catalogue containing the description of this copy cites: "For example, on p. 21 in the penultimate line 'Firiness' which is nonsense in the context has been corrected to 'fixednes' which makes sense and is used by Boyle in the same sense on pp. 86 and 87. Yet 'firiness' remains in the second edition. The hand of this correction is very like Boyle's normal epistolary hand. It is quite possible that Boyle sent these corrected sheets to the printer and that instead of being used for correction they were inadvertently included with one of the copies to be sold." In the additional leaves at end (pp. 437-42), Boyle apologizes for the somewhat numerous errata: "The Authors constant Absence from the Presse, whilst the former Treatise was Printing, and the Nature of the Subject it self, wherewith ordinary Composers are not wont to be at all acquainted, will, 'tis hop'd, procure the Readers Excuse, till the next Edition, if the Errata be somewhat numerous...For the Author now perceives that through the fault of those to whom he had committed the former Treatise in loose Sheets, some Papers that belonged to it, have altogether miscarryed..." "Boyle distinguished between mixtures and compounds and tried to understand the latter in terms of the simpler chemical entities from which they could be constructed. His argument was designed to lead chemists away from the pure empiricism of his predecessors and to stress the theoretical, experimental and mechanistic elements of chemical science. The Sceptical Chymist is concerned with the relations between chemical substances rather than with transmuting one metal into another or the manufacture of drugs. In this sense the book must be considered as one of the most significant milestones on the way to the chemical revoltion of lavoisier in the late eighteenth century"--PMM.
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