De ipsa natura, sive libera in receptam naturae notionem disquisitio ad amicum. Authore R.B. nobili Anglo Societatis Regiae socio. Ex Anglico sermone in Latinum traducebat, D.A. M.D

All titles

• De ipsa natura, sive libera in receptam naturae notionem disquisitio ad amicum. Authore R.B. nobili Anglo Societatis Regiae socio. Ex Anglico sermone in Latinum traducebat, D.A. M.D
• Libera in receptam naturae notionem disquisitio ad amicum

People / Organizations

• Robert Boyle (Author)

Imprint

Londini : typis H[enry]. Clark, impensis Johannis Taylor, ad insigne Globi in C meterio Pauli, MDCLXXXVII. [1687]

Added name

Abercromby, David, -1701 or 1702, tr.

Publication year

1687

ESTC No.

R27219

Grub Street ID

110406

Description

[26], 176 [i.e. 193], [5] p. ; 12°.

Note

A translation of 'A free enquiry into the vulgarly receiv'd notion of nature; made in an essay, address'd to a friend. By R.B. Fellow of the Royal Society'

D.A. = David Abercromby. Abercromby was a member of Boyle's circle, a principal recipient of Boyle's patronage during the 1680s, and, at the author's own request, translated several of Boyle's works into Latin (although Abercromby's name does not appear in these texts, the translator's prefaces are initialled D.A. M.D.)

Printer's name from Wing (CD-ROM, 1996)

P. 193 misnumbered 176

With two final advertisement leaves, the last of which bears errata.