[199] Robert Boyle to Lord Broghill: Birch’s Life; afterwards used as Epistle Dedicatory to the Considerations on the Style of the Scriptures.
[200] Birch’s Life.
[201] Of Freshwater, in the Isle of Wight.
[202] Boyle’s Law, confirmed by Mariotte in 1676: “The volume of any given sample of a gas at constant temperature is inversely proportional to the pressure.”
[203] Hooke’s Law, 1676: Ut tensio, sic vis; “Strain is proportional to stress.”
[204] Published Oxford, 1660.
[205] Birch’s Life.
[206] Attacked by Hobbes and Franciscus Linus; 2nd ed. London, 1662; 3rd ed. London, 1682.
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