New experiments physico-mechanical touching the air : whereunto is added a defence of the author's explication of the experiments against the objections of Franciscus Linus and Thomas Hobbs ; New experiments physico-mechanical, touching the spring of the air, and its effects, made, for the most part, in a new pnuematical engine : written by way of letter to the right honorable Charles Lord Vicount of Dungarvan, eldest son to the Earl of Corke ; A defence of the doctrine touching the spring and weight of the air ... against the objections of Franciscus Linus ; An examen of Mr. T. Hobbs his dialogus physicus de natura aeris, as far as it concerns Mr. Boyle's book of new experiments touching the spring of the air, etc ... ; A continuation of new experiments physico-mechanical touching the spring and weight of the air, and their effects ...
Robert Boyle's 1682 collected treatise on air pressure, published in London by Miles Flesher for an English natural-philosophy readership, gathers his experiments with a pneumatical engine and replies to critics Linus and Hobbs. Its engraved plates show glass vessels, bell jars, and apparatus on stands, drawn in fine parallel hatching with lettered figures, useful to a designer for scientific diagram linework and the look of early modern laboratory equipment.
