Hale, Sir Matthew

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Description

Difficiles Nugae: Or, Observations Touching the Torricellian Experiment, And various Solutions of the same, especially touching the Weight and Elasticity of the Air. London: W. Godbid for William Shrowsbury, 1674
paper, ink, leather

8vo (170 x 100 mm). Two folding engraved plates; small rust hole to second plate. Contemporary ruled calf with elaborately gilt spine.

Literature

Wing H238

Catalogue Note

first edition. The mathematician Evangelista Torricelli (1608-1647) is credited with the invention of the barometer. This anonymously published work attacks Robert Boyle's doctrines about the elasticity and weight of air.