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549 [BOYLE (Hon. Robert, f.r.s.)] Some Considerations touching the Usekulnesse of 

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 Invitation to tlie Study of it, first edition, cr. 4to. original boards^ UNCUr, 16* Qd Oxford^ 1663 



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' I scruple not to acknowledge there are things that incline nio to suspect, that same ia the world . . . may li:i\ .> 

 Arcana, to which most of the Processes I reserve may prove little more than Trittiis'.— Author's prejaa-. This p,iss;i-e is 

 interesting as first avowing his belief in alchemy. 



551 Another Coi'if, with tlie Second Tome— 2 voU. cr. 4to. large and fine copies in the original 



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.v,4 (- ] Some Specimens of an Attempt to make Chymical Experlmen ts, useful to illustrate 



the Notions of Corpuscular Philosophy, 4to. (pp. 119-158), sewn, 5s 1668 



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:,jj [ ] Tracts consistint: of Observations about the Saltness of the Sea: Account of the 



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 a Fragment about the Natural and Prenatural State of Bodies, and a Sceptical l)ial()<,aie about the 

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556 [ ] Two Essays concernin<,' the Unsuccessfulness of Experiments, containinj; divers 



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557 BBAHE (Tycho) ASTRONOMLK Instaurat.E Mechanica ; with portrait within armorial title, 

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This valuable work contains the description of Tycho Brahe's instruments at Uranienborg Observatory, and his 

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558 HiSTORlA CoiLESTls [complectens Observationes Astronomicas Varias ad Historian! 



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559 : Tycho Brahe: a Picture of Scientific Life and Work in the XVI. Century, by 



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530 BRANCA (Giovanni) Le Machine. Volume nuovo et di molto artifieio da fare effetti niara- 

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561 BRANCEIER (Thomaa; »r.) Introduction to Algebra, trans, out of the Hi ^[h- Dutch [of 

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563 BRANDE (William Thomas, f.r.s.) Manual of Chemistry, 2nd Ed., with plates by Basire, 

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564 Third Edition, with plates and numerous woodcuts, 2 vols. 8vo. hoards, 4* 6c? 1830 



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author succeeded Sir H. Davy as professor of chemistry at the Royal Institution, where Faraday acted as his assistant. 



565 , and Sir George William COX, pr. : Dictionary of Science, Literature, and Art, 



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567 BRANISS (C. J.) Ueber ATOMISTISCHE und DYNAMISCHE Naturauffassung, impl. 8vo. sewn, 

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