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Published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016
ISBN 10: 1533646058ISBN 13: 9781533646057
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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Published by Palala Press, 2015
ISBN 10: 1341467686ISBN 13: 9781341467684
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Published by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2018
ISBN 10: 1986710572ISBN 13: 9781986710572
Seller: booksXpress, Bayonne, NJ, U.S.A.
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Published by Legare Street Press, 2022
ISBN 10: 1015452485ISBN 13: 9781015452480
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Published by Tredition Classics 2/24/2012, 2012
ISBN 10: 3847233440ISBN 13: 9783847233442
Seller: BargainBookStores, Grand Rapids, MI, U.S.A.
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Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. The Sceptical Chymist or Chymico-Physical Doubts & Paradoxes, Touching the Spagyrist's Principles Commonly Call'd Hypostatical, as They Are Wont to Be 0.56. Book.
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Published by Forgotten Books, 2018
ISBN 10: 1333073011ISBN 13: 9781333073015
Seller: Forgotten Books, London, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: New. Print on Demand. Excerpt from The Sceptical Chymist, or Chymico-Physical Doubts and Paradoxes, Touching the Experiments Whereby Vulgar Spagirists Are Wont to Endeavour to Evince Their Salt, Sulphur and Mercury, to Be the True Principles of Things. About the Publisher, Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. This text has been digitally restored from a historical edition. Some errors may persist, however we consider it worth publishing due to the work's historical value. The digital edition of all books may be viewed on our website before purchase. print-on-demand item.
Publication Date: 2022
Seller: S N Books World, Delhi, India
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Leatherbound. Condition: NEW. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1965 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 474 Language: English Pages: 474.
Publication Date: 2023
Seller: True World of Books, Delhi, India
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LeatherBound. Condition: New. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1680 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 770 Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.
Publication Date: 2023
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LeatherBound. Condition: New. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1680 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 770.
Publication Date: 2023
Seller: True World of Books, Delhi, India
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LeatherBound. Condition: New. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1680 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 772 Language: English.
Published by Gryphon Editions, 1997
Seller: Midtown Scholar Bookstore, Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.
Leather Bound. Condition: Very Good. Leather bound No dust jacket. Very Good hardcover with light shelfwear - NICE! Oversized.
Published by BiblioBazaar, 2008
ISBN 10: 0554095807ISBN 13: 9780554095806
Seller: Revaluation Books, Exeter, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 242 pages. 8.75x5.75x0.55 inches. This item is printed on demand.
Published by Legare Street Press, 2022
ISBN 10: 1015447430ISBN 13: 9781015447431
Seller: THE SAINT BOOKSTORE, Southport, United Kingdom
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Published by BiblioBazaar, 2008
ISBN 10: 1437500641ISBN 13: 9781437500646
Seller: Revaluation Books, Exeter, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 213 pages. 8.00x5.00x0.75 inches. This item is printed on demand.
Published by BiblioBazaar, 2008
ISBN 10: 143750065XISBN 13: 9781437500653
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Published by Hansebooks
ISBN 10: 3337593879ISBN 13: 9783337593872
Seller: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germany
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - The Sceptical Chymist - Chymico-Physical Doubts and Paradoxes is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1661.Hans Elektronisches Buch is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hans Elektronisches Buch newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.
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ISBN 10: 3337467369ISBN 13: 9783337467364
Seller: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germany
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - The Sceptical Chymist - Or chymico-physical doubts & paradoxes, touching the experiments whereby vulgar spargirists are wont to endeavour to evince their salt, sulphur and mercury, to be the true principles of things. is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1680.Hans Elektronisches Buch is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hans Elektronisches Buch newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.
Published by London: Dawsons of Pall Mall, 1965., 1965
Seller: Ted Kottler, Bookseller, Redondo Beach, CA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Original edition reprinted in facsimile, limited to 500 copies. [xx], 442 + 1 pp. Original 1/4-leather and cloth. Near Fine.
Published by Oxford printed for Henry Hall for Ric. Davis and B. Took at the Ship in St. Pauls Church Yard, 1680
TITLE CONTINUED: To which in this Edition are subjoynd divers Experiments and Notes about the Producibleness of Chymical Principles. TWO PARTS, EACH WITH ITS OWN TITLE PAGE, SECOND EDITION 1680, OFTHE SCEPTICAL CHYMIST (but the first to include the second part), FIRST EDITION 1680 of EXPERIMENTS AND NOTES. Small 8vo, approximately 165 x 100 mm, 6½ x 4 inches, pages: [20], 1-440, [28], 1-268, without the inserted 'advertisement' leaf (as often), a facsimile advert tipped in on last pastedown, full contemporary speckled panelled calf, paper label with old ink title, original endpapers. Spine worn and glued down, covers slightly pitted, paper label chipped at edges, upper hinge cracked but still attached on cords, inner paper hinges cracked, first inner paper hinge strengthened with binder's cloth, slight staining to title page, author's name in old ink to title page, another crossed out, 2 small edge repairs to blank side of title page, upper margins slightly trimmed, occasionally just shaving running titles, tiny repairs to verso outer margins of prelims up to page 10, not affecting text, worming to outer margins up to page 117 in varying degrees, narrow tracks all neatly repaired with document repair tape, non-yellowing and acid free, no loss to text, 3 letters inked in on page 33, small hole on page 47 affecting 2 letters, easily understood, lower margin neatly repaired on page 162, not near text, pale staining at beginning of text, mostly to margins, 2nd part slightly wormed to inner margins of pages 61-76 just touching a few letters but all legible, all neatly repaired with document repair tape, a few pages just slightly protruding, none are loose, occasional crease and pale brown spot, otherwise a very good copy. See: John Fulton, A Bibliography of The Hon. Robert Boyle, page 28, No. 34; Printing and the Mind of Man, page 83, No. 141, listing 1661 edition; The Honeyman Collection of Scientific Books, Part 1, No. 459; Catalogue of Printed Books in the Wellcome Library, Volume 2, page 221; The Haskell F. Norman Library of Science & Medicine, Volume 1, page 110, No. 299; Ferguson, Bibliotheca Chemica, Volume 1, page 121; Duveen, Bibliotheca Alchemica et Chemica, page 96; Dibner Library, Heralds of Science, revised edition, page 23, No. 39; ESTC R16310. More close up images of repairs on request. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.
Published by Henry Hall for R. Davis and B. Took, Oxford, 1680
Seller: Milestones of Science Books, Ritterhude, Germany
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. Two parts in one volume. 8vo (164 x 110 mm). [22], 440, [28], 268 pp., advertisement leaf bound before title in second state with date January 1679/80. Second part with separate title page and pagination. Signatures: [pi]1 A8 a2 (B-2E)8 2F4, *8 2*4 A4 (B-R)8 S4. Bound in 19th century mottled calf, spine with gilt-lettered red morocco label, red-sprinkled edges (upper joint repaired, extremities rubbed). Text generally quite crisp and clean with only minor browning, occasional pale damp-staining at outer margins, some scattered leaves trimmed short at upper margin, occasional minor spotting, small worm tracks at gutter and lower edge affecting a few letters at top inner margin of final 3 gatherings, tiny burn hole in a2 not affecting text, small paper flaw hole in 2E8 w/o loss of letters, clean tear to top margin of F1, paper flaw to fore-margin of 2H2. Provenance: Spero Meleora (old ink inscription on first title), collation notes by Bernard Quarich to rear pastedown. A very good, better than usual, copy. ---- Wing B 4022, Fulton 34, Sparrow 27. PMM 141, Dibner 39, Horblit 14 (for 1st ed.). ENLARGED SECOND EDITION OF A MILESTONE IN THE HISTORY OF CHEMISTRY, WITH THE RARE LEAF OF ADVERTISEMENT and with the second part not present in the original edition of 1661. "The importance of Boyle's book must be sought in his combination of chemistry with physics. His corpuscular theory, and Newton's modification of it, gradually led chemists towards an atomic view of matter . . . 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 transmuting one metal into another or the manufacture of drugs. In this sense the book must be considered one of the most significant milestones on the way to the chemical revolution of Lavoisier in the eighteenth century" (PMM). Written in the form of a dialogue, The Sceptical Chymist presented Boyle's hypothesis that matter consisted of atoms and clusters of atoms in motion and that every phenomenon was the result of collisions of particles in motion. Boyle suspected that none of the then accepted elements - the earth, air, fire and water of the Aristotelians or the salt, sulphur, and mercury of the Paracelsans - was truly elementary. In this work he also defended his corpuscular chemistry, the first clear outline of which he published earlier the same year in Certain Physiological Essays. - Visit our website to see more images!.
Published by Oxford: Printed by Henry Hall for Richard Davis and B. Took, 1680, 1680
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
First Edition
First edition thus, combining the second edition of The Sceptical Chymist (1661) and the first edition of Experiments and Notes, the latter with a separately dated title page, pagination, and register, which was also issued separately. "The importance of Boyle's book must be sought in his combination of chemistry with physics. His corpuscular theory, and Newton's modification of it, gradually led chemists towards an atomic view of matter. 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 revolution of Lavoisier" (PMM). With the booklabel to front pastedown of Calgarth Park, built by the chemist Richard Watson (1737-1816), Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and Professor of Chemistry there from 1764 to 1773; he published his Chemical Essays in five volumes from 1781 to 1787. ESTC R16310; Fulton 34; Madan, III, 3260-61; Wing B4022. See Printing and the Mind of Man 141 for the first edition. Octavo (171 x 107 mm). Contemporary calf, marbled edges. Bound without the rare advertisement leaf, as almost always. Old bookseller's description of 1661 edition affixed to rear pastedown. Joints and extremities neatly restored, very light dampstaining at foot. A very good copy.
Published by H. Hall for R. Davis & B. Took, Oxford, 1680
A FOUNDING WORK OF MODERN CHEMISTRY. 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 the forerunner of Dalton's atomic theory" (Sparrow). "Boyle's most celebrated book is his Sceptical Chymist . It contains the germs of many ideas elaborated by Boyle in his later publications" (Partington II, p. 496). The physicists, Boyle called them 'hermetick philosophers', upheld the Peripatetical or Aristotelian doctrine of the four elements - fire, air, earth, and water. The chemists, 'vulgar spagyrists', were disciples of Paracelsus who believed in the tria prima - salt, sulphur, and mercury. Boyle showed that both of these theories were totally inadequate to explain chemistry and was the first to give a satisfactory definition of an element. This second edition of the Sceptical Chymist contains the first printing of the second part, Experiments and Notes about theProducibleness of Chymical Principles. The first edition of the Sceptical Chymist hardly ever appears on the market and now commands a very high price - the last complete copy sold at auction realized £362,500 in 2015. Fulton located five copies of this second edition complete with the advertisement leaf; four are recorded on ABPC/RBH in the last 40 years (only one since the Norman sale, and that in a modern binding). "The 'Sceptical Chymist' is one of the great books in the history of scientific thought, for it not only marks the transition from alchemy to modern chemistry but is a plea, couched in most modern terms, for the adoption of the experimental method. Boyle inveighed against the inaccurate terminology of the 'vulgar spagyrists' and the 'hermetick philosophers,' as he termed the alchemists who refused to define their terms . He predicted that many more [elements] existed than had been described, but insisted that many substances, then thought to be elemental, were, in fact, chemical compounds. He set forth the modern distinction between a compound and a mixture, pointing out that a true chemical compound possessed properties entirely different from either of its constituents" (Fulton). "The importance of Boyle's book must be sought in his combination of chemistry with physics. His corpuscular theory, and Newton's modification of it, gradually led chemists towards an atomic view of matter . 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 revolution of Lavoisier in the late eighteenth century" (PMM). "Boyle (1627-91) has ben called the founder of modern chemistry, for three reasons: (1) he realized that chemistry is worthy of study for its own sake and not merely as an aid to medicine or alchemy - although he believed in the possibility of the latter; (2) he introduced a rigorous experimental method into chemistry; (3) he gave a clear definition of an element and showed by experiment that the four elements of Aristotle and the three principles of the alchemists (mercury, sulphur and salt) did not deserve to be called elements or principles at all, since none of them could be extracted from bodies" (Partington II, p. 495). The Sceptical Chymist takes the form of a dialogue, clearly modeled on Galileo's Dialogo, involving four participants. The Aristotelian Themistius and the Paracelsian Philoponus state their positions briefly, but soon fall silent. A wide-ranging discussion ensues between the sceptical Carneades (Boyle himself) and Eleutherius, the open-minded enquirer. Carneades argues - citing many experimental examples - that the Aristotelian four-element system and the Paracelsian three-principle model give equally inadequate explanations of what happens when complex substances are attacked by fire, or by powerful solvents. He shows that these processes often generate new compounds, rather than the promised 'primitive and simple, or perfectly unmingled bodies', which remain stubbornly elusive. His second proposal is more speculative - and theologically more dangerous. Boyle believed, and hoped to prove in time, that the ultimate constituents of bodies were minute atoms, differing only in 'bulk, figure, texture and motion'. This idea was first suggested by the ancient Greek natural philosophers Leucippus and Democritus. Their successor, Epicurus, incorporated it into a godless materialistic world-view that was universally condemned by Christian theologians. Consequently, atomistic theories were suppressed for centuries. By the mid-17th century the works of the classical Greek atomists had been printed, translated and commented upon by scholars such as Pierre Gassendi, though there was still considerable hostility to them from clergy of all persuasions. But Boyle - a devout (though somewhat unorthodox) Christian who funded translations of the Gospels into many languages, including Gaelic and Turkish - saw no reason why a benign deity could not have chosen to create an atomic universe. "This work has often been acclaimed as a turning point in the evolution of modern chemistry, a crushing blow to traditional alchemy, but in fact Boyle's message is a more complex one. In his text he made a clear distinction between 'the true Adepti' and 'those Chymists.