PHILOSOPHICAL WORKS [Volume II + III Only] physics, statics, pneumatics, natural history, chymistry, and medecine / the whole illustrated with notes containing the improvements made in the several parts of natural and experimental knowledge since his time by Peter Shaw.

folding plates [19 in Vol.II & in Vol. III] Quarto blind tooled panelled calf on 5 raised bands with gilt spine label [rebacked with old spine relaid and original cover laid on front board] Vol.III titlepage + xv [=content] +[1p=blank] +756pp [includes index]. Title on spine loose and rubbed. The half title to "Medicine" is in facsimile.TOPICS covered in these volumes are pneumatics, natural history, chymistry, air, Minerology & Gems, and medecine with the whole illustrated with notes containing the improvements made in the several parts of natural and experimental knowledge since Boyle`s death in 1694 by Dr Peter Shaw. Early and last pages have a damp mark mainly marginal and neither paper or text compromised. The endpapers have a modern Thomas Bewick bookplate. Possible contemporary signature on titlepage, ink. The volumes are clean, crisp and largley unmarked. Vol II contains a dedication to the Earl of Orrery, a patron of the sciences. *Boyle is largely regarded today as the founder of modern chemistry, and a pioneer of the experimental scientific method. A member of the Royal Society he was elected president but declined the honor,and is remembered for the law named after him of volume vs pressure of gases. Investigation and experiments were to be the way of science and he was not fond of hypothesis until proof was found. This collection of the many papers and experiments he wrote up are here brought up to date with later findings to produce the best compilation of his work and this is the first edition thus. Dr Peter Shaw was a London based physician who was appointed physician extraordinary to King George II in 1753. All Vol`s printed in London. 1 volume.…