BOYLE, Robert (1627-1691). Some Considerations touching the Usefulnesse of Experimental Philosophy [Part 1], Oxford: by Hen. Hall for Ric. Davis, 1663, 4°, FIRST EDITION, with general half-title and half-title to section 1 placed before B1 (lacking A1 longitudinal title, accession stamp at foot of *3, R2 holed with very slight loss), contemporary calf with morocco lettering-piece, covers ruled in blind (front cover dampstained and with small John Crerar library stamp at inner corner, spine worn at head and with shelf mark in one compartment). [Fulton 50; Wing B4029]

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BOYLE, Robert (1627-1691). Some Considerations touching the Usefulnesse of Experimental Philosophy [Part 1], Oxford: by Hen. Hall for Ric. Davis, 1663, 4°, FIRST EDITION, with general half-title and half-title to section 1 placed before B1 (lacking A1 longitudinal title, accession stamp at foot of *3, R2 holed with very slight loss), contemporary calf with morocco lettering-piece, covers ruled in blind (front cover dampstained and with small John Crerar library stamp at inner corner, spine worn at head and with shelf mark in one compartment). [Fulton 50; Wing B4029]

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The Royal Society of London was officially incorporated in 1662, although there had been preliminary meetings in London, which Boyle attended, as early as 1647. In Part I of The Usefulness of Experimental Philosophy, which was drafted in about 1650, Boyle attempted to justify the activities of the virtuoso experimentalists in the eyes of their contemporaries. Part II was written later and published in 1671 (see Fulton p. 37).

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