The Sceptical Chymist Or Chymico Physical Doubts Paradoxes Touching The Experiments Whereby

by Robert Boyle

$35,000 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

Oxford: H. Hall for R. Davis & B. Took, 1680. Second edition in English first, 1661 , complete with the very rare advertisement leaf which is lacking from most copies, of this landmark in the history of science, “his most important work where he set down his corpuscular theory of the constitution of matter, which finally freed chemistry from the restrictions of the Greek concept of the four elements, and was

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