Physics Boyle, Robert Tracts: containing I. Suspicions about some Hidden Qualities of the Air (...). II. Animadversions upon Mr Hobbe's Problemata de Vacuo. III. A discourse of the cause of Attraction by Suction. London, W. G., 1674. 6 pp., 13 pp., 71 pp., 1 leaf, 20 pp., 2 pp., 5 pp., 1 leaf, 16 pp., 8 pp., 94 pp., 1 leaf, 67 pp. Softcover with gilt stamped design and red speckled edges (rubbed and slightly bumped). With a handwritten note on the dirt title. - Treatises by the Irish naturalist Robert Boyle (ca. 1627-1691), which deal with the concept of oxidation, among other things. Boyle initially focussed on the field of alchemy, but quickly established himself as one of the first modern natural scientists with his publications on experiments in the fields of physics and chemistry. - Individual pages partly bound in the wrong order. Slight foxing, edges minimally browned. Overall a very well-preserved copy. Physics. - Leather with gilt stamped front vignette and red speckled edges (rubbed and slightly bumped). - With a handwritten note on the dirt title. - Treatises by the Irish naturalist Robert Boyle (ca. 1627-1691), which deal with the concept of oxidation, among other things. Boyle initially worked in the field of alchemy, but quickly established himself as one of the first modern natural scientists with his publications on experiments in the fields of physics and chemistry. - Some pages bound in the wrong order. Slight foxing, edges minimally browned. Overall a very well-preserved copy.