 | Henry G. van Leeuwen - History - 1970 - 188 pages
...was in chemistry, but his experiments with the air pump, beginning in 1657, led to the publication of New Experiments Physico-Mechanical Touching the Spring of the Air and its Effects 2 in 1660 and the formulation of the law which bears his name. Combined with his insatiable curiousity... | |
 | Henry Marshall Leicester - Science - 1971 - 292 pages
...important experimental work of Boyle was his study of the properties of air, which he published in New Experiments Physicomechanical, Touching the Spring of the Air and Its Effects (1660). He applied the newly discovered air pump of Otto von Guericke (16021686), Burgomaster of Magdeburg,... | |
 | Walter J. Moore, Dieter O. Hummel - Science - 1986 - 1290 pages
...zusammengedrückt würden. Dieser Schluß ist bekanntlich falsch. 1660 beschrieb BOYLE in seinem Buch »New Experiments, Physico-Mechanical, Touching the Spring of the Air, and its Effects« die Beobachtungen mit einer neuen Vakuumpumpe, die er konstruiert hatte. Er beobachtete, daß die Quecksilbersäule... | |
 | Physicians - 1986 - 344 pages
...expérimentale. Le succès de l'ouvrage (1660) auprès des physiciens anglais fut considérable. Son titre, New Experiments physico-mechanical touching the Spring of the Air and its effects, annonce clairement que c'est du spring (ressort) ou elater, de l'air — il emploie les deux mots indifféremment... | |
 | John Locke - Empiricism - 1992 - 424 pages
...pneumatic engine. In his Physico-mechanical Experiments, concerning the air, he declares* it probable * New Experiments Physico-mechanical, touching the spring of the air, and its effects; (made for the most part in a new pneumatical engine) written.... by the honourable Robert Boyle, Esq.... | |
 | Cork Historical and Archaeological Society - Cork (Ireland : County) - 1916 - 248 pages
...his theory of the constitution of the atmosphere, which he described in his famous paper entitled, " New Experiments Physico-Mechanical Touching the Spring of the Air, and its Effects." I will not attempt to give an account of the distinguished litterateurs and scientists wfio were friends... | |
 | Robert Boyle - Philosophy - 1996 - 216 pages
...1656 1659 Some Motives and Incentives to the Love of God (usually called Seraphic Love) published 1660 New Experiments Physico-Mechanical, Touching the Spring of the Air and its Effects published; attends inaugural meeting of Royal Society, 28 November 1661 Certain Physiological Essays... | |
 | Michael Shortland, Richard R. Yeo - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 318 pages
...itself. Thereafter, however, the text settles down to a detailed account of the content of Boyle's New Experiments Physico-Mechanical, Touching the Spring of the Air and its Effects (1660), section by section, interspersed by notes on ancillary works by Boyle and by information about... | |
 | Robert D. Purrington - Medical - 1997 - 276 pages
...= constant. Their work was known to Robert Boyle (l627-9l), who mentioned it in the second edition of New Experiments Physico-Mechanical, Touching the Spring of the Air, and Its Effects ( l 662), acknowledging Towneley but not Power. Robert Hooke mentioned their work in Micrographia,... | |
 | John L. Phillips - Technology & Engineering - 1998 - 284 pages
...relationship between the expansion of air and its decreasing pressure, now known as Boyle's Law. (Frontispiece of New Experiments Physico-Mechanical touching the Spring of the Air and its Effects ... by Robert Boyle, 1662, Ash.C.24, Bodleian Library, University of Oxford) (fig. 1). Touring Europe... | |
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New Experiments Physico-mechanical, touching the spring of the air, and its effects ; (made for the most part in a new pneumatical engine) written .... by the honourable Robert Boyle, Esq* experiment xxxvi. 
