An Experimental History of Cold – OR – Happy Winter Solstice!

A review of the treatise New Observations and Experiments in order to an Experimental History of Cold by Robert Boyle, this article details the 21 experiments described therein, including, but not limited to:

Experiments and Observations touching Bodies Disposed to be Frozen.

Experiments touching Bodies, Indisposed to be Frozen. 

Experiments touching the the Tendency of Cold Upwards or Downwards. 

Experiments and Observations touching the Preservation and Destruction of (Eggs, Apples, and other) Bodies by Cold. 

Experiments and Observations touching the Sphere of Activity of Cold. 

Of the Strange Effects of Cold. 

Promiscuous Experiments and Observations concerning Cold.   

However, the article closes with a lament that the treatise would already be publicly available “if the extremity of the late Frost had not stopt the Press.” 

“An Experimental History of Cold” Philosophical Transactions (1665) 1:8-9.

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