Robert Boyle's barometer Finish:Single For the opposition

For the opposition

South-west view of the King's Head Academy

The work is inscribed above with publication and plate details and upper left 'American Ostrich

and the star chamber

Robert Boyle's barometer Finish:Single For the oppositionFig. 1: Boyle's experiment 'About the greatest height to which Water can be rais'd by Attraction or Sucking Pumps'; Fig. 2: 'Wherein is proposed a way of making Barometers, that may be transported even to distant Countries'; Figs. 3 and 4: 'Shewing that an Oblique pressure of the Atmosphere may suffice to keep up the Mercury at the wonted height in the Torricellian Experiment, and that the Spring of a little included Air may do the same.' Plate 5 from