LOT 43 London: A. Millar, 1744. BOYLE, ROBERT. 1627-1691. The Works of the Honourable Robert Boyle: In Five Volumes.
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BOYLE, ROBERT. 1627-1691.
The Works of the Honourable Robert Boyle: In Five Volumes. London: A. Millar, 1744. 5 volumes, folio (368 x 236 mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece of author, 15 folding plates. Modern quarter calf antique and marbled boards. Library stamps and foxing to engravings, paper repairs to frontispiece.Provenance: New York Academy of Sciences (stamp).FIRST COMPLETE EDITION, including Thomas Birch's biography of Boyle. A founder of the modern field of chemistry, Boyle's scientific rigor and skepticism established many of the principles which scientific method is based upon today. These complete works include Boyle's experiments with air pressure, his denouncement of Aristotelian views of form and matter, and his discovery of the relationship between the temperature and pressure of gas.
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