[Rarebooks] Hale Disputes Aristotle, Descartes and Robert Boyle

[Joe Luttrell]

May we offer:

HALE, Matthew.  Difficiles Nugae; Or, Observations Touching the
Torricellian Experiment, and The various Solutions of the same,
especially touching the Weight and Elasticity of the Air. Second
Edition. Wing H239.  Printed by W. Godbid, for William Shrowsbury
[etc.], London, 1675.  Modern calf, some light browning, else a
good copy, with the addendum at p.281 and the folding table at
page 304, neither noted in ESTC. PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=78053 $ 1,500.00

One of Hale's few published and polemical scientific works,
disputing the theories of Descartes and Robert Boyle, relying in
significant part upon Aristotle, and evidencing his "chosen
public statement of the correct approach to the natural world".

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