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BOYLE, ROBERT. Short Memoirs for the Natural Experimental History of Mineral Waters. [18], 112, [14] (of [16]) pages; lacks final blank. Small 8vo, modern speckled olive morocco; title lightly soiled, with small imperfections affecting a few letters in bottom line of imprint. London: Samuel Smith, 1684/5 [1685]
first edition. "Boyle proposed to study all of the physical and chemical properties of the various mineral waters, even including such properties as viscosity" (Fulton). The book contains a collection of chemical tests, "a great advance on previous work . . . Boyle . . . used dry test-papers on which drops of solution were placed--the first 'spot tests' "--Partington II, 534. Fulton 159; Wing B4023.
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