In two single issues of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. (4to) 21.1x16.2 cm (8¼x6½"), disbound. Comprises: Vol I, Numb. 11, Munday (sic), April 2, 1666. Pp. 179-198. With "A Confirmation of the former Account, touching the late Earthquake near Oxford... by Mr. Boyle. Some Observations and Directions about the Barometer, communicated by the same Hand. General Heads for a Natural History of a Country, finall or great, proposed by the same..." Vol I, Numb. 14, Munday (sic), July 2, 1666. Pp. 231-254. With "Of a New kind of Baroscope, with may be call'd Statical; and of some Advantages and Conveniences it hath above the Mercurial: Communicated, some while since, by the Honourable Robert Boyle..." Significant papers on the means of measuring barometric pressure, of key interest in the maritime nation of Great Britain, plus a number of other articles by Boyle and others, touching on astronomy, meteorological phenomena, travels, mathematics, and more.
In two single issues of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. (4to) 21.1x16.2 cm (8¼x6½"), disbound. Comprises: Vol I, Numb. 11, Munday (sic), April 2, 1666. Pp. 179-198. With "A Confirmation of the former Account, touching the late Earthquake near Oxford... by Mr. Boyle. Some Observations and Directions about the Barometer, communicated by the same Hand. General Heads for a Natural History of a Country, finall or great, proposed by the same..." Vol I, Numb. 14, Munday (sic), July 2, 1666. Pp. 231-254. With "Of a New kind of Baroscope, with may be call'd Statical; and of some Advantages and Conveniences it hath above the Mercurial: Communicated, some while since, by the Honourable Robert Boyle..." Significant papers on the means of measuring barometric pressure, of key interest in the maritime nation of Great Britain, plus a number of other articles by Boyle and others, touching on astronomy, meteorological phenomena, travels, mathematics, and more.
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