New Experiments and observations touching cold, or, An experimental history of cold begun…

Robert Boyle (1627-1691)

London: Printed for Richard Davis…,1683
Rare Book Collections, General 84A132

Open to Figures 1-7, opposite page 40. Anglo-Irish natural philosopher Robert Boyle is often called the “father of chemistry.” His work extended into physics, medicine, alchemy, natural theology and more. He discovered what came to be called Boyle’s law: the inverse relationship between volume and pressure in a gas, where temperature remains constant.