Boyle, Robert 1627-1691

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Works:	1,711 works in 5,570 publications in 8 languages and 67,863 library holdings
Genres:	History Criticism, interpretation, etc Prescriptions, formulae, receipts, etc Biography Church history Bibliography Portraits
Roles:	Author, Editor, Correspondent, Dedicatee, Recipient, Other, Attributed name, Honoree, Creator
Classifications:	PR1121, 540.1

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Publications about Robert Boyle

Publications by Robert Boyle

Publications by Robert Boyle, published posthumously.

Most widely held works about Robert Boyle

The evidences of the Christian religion by Joseph Addison ( )
Alchemy tried in the fire Starkey, Boyle, and the fate of Helmontian chymistry by William R Newman ( )
The philosophy of Robert Boyle by Peter R Anstey ( )
The diffident naturalist Robert Boyle and the philosophy of experiment by Rose-Mary Sargent ( )
Boyle on fire the mechanical revolution in scientific explanation by William R Eaton ( )

Leviathan and the air-pump : Hobbes, Boyle, and the experimental life : including a translation of Thomas Hobbes, Dialogus physicus de natura aeris by Simon Schaffer by Steven Shapin ( Book )
Boyle on atheism by Robert Boyle ( )
Robert Boyle and seventeenth-century chemistry by Marie Boas Hall ( Book )
Cold Light : creatures, discoveries, and inventions that glow by Anita Sitarski ( Book )
Boyle : between God and science by Michael Cyril William Hunter ( Book )
The life and works of the Honourable Robert Boyle by Louis Trenchard More ( Book )
Robert Boyle's experiments in pneumatics by James Bryant Conant ( Book )
Robert Boyle and the English Revolution : a study in social and intellectual change by James R Jacob ( Book )
The aspiring adept : Robert Boyle and his alchemical quest : including Boyle's "lost" Dialogue on the transmutation of metals by Lawrence Principe ( Book )
The life of the Honourable Robert Boyle by Robert E. W Maddison ( Book )
A bibliography of the Honourable Robert Boyle, fellow of the Royal Society by John F Fulton ( Book )
Ideas, qualities, and corpuscles : Locke and Boyle on the external world by Peter Alexander ( Book )
Robert Boyle reconsidered by Michael Hunter ( Book )
Robert Boyle, father of chemistry by Roger Pilkington ( Book )
The very idea of modern science Francis Bacon and Robert Boyle by Joseph Agassi ( )

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Most widely held works by Robert Boyle

The sceptical chymist by Robert Boyle ( Book )
144 editions published between 1661 and 2013 in 7 languages and held by 1,935 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Zuo zhe yi ju yan mi de hua xue shi yan jie guo, chan shu le ta de wei li zhe xue, ti chu le wu ti de bian yi yuan li, pi pan ya li shi duo de de si yuan su shuo he lian jin shu shi de san yao su shuo, ti chu hua xue ying dang you zi shen de yan jiu mu de

Some motives and incentives to the love of God pathetically discours'd of in a letter to a friend. By the Honourable Robert Boyle by Robert Boyle ( Book )
143 editions published between 1659 and 2005 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,893 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Certain physiological essays written at distant times, and on several occasions by Robert Boyle ( Book )
133 editions published between 1661 and 1973 in 3 languages and held by 980 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Experiments and considerations touching colours. First occasionally written, among some other essays, to a friend; and now suffer'd to come abroad as the beginning of an experimental history of colours by Robert Boyle ( Book )
64 editions published between 1664 and 2007 in 3 languages and held by 911 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Robert Boyle on natural philosophy : an essay, with selections from his writings by Robert Boyle ( Book )
14 editions published between 1965 and 1980 in English and held by 851 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Some considerations touching the style of the H. Scriptures extracted from several parts of a discourse concerning divers particulars belonging to the Bible by Robert Boyle ( Book )
55 editions published between 1661 and 1981 in 3 languages and held by 762 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Tracts written by the Honourable Robert Boyle about the cosmicall qualities of things, cosmicall suspitions [sic], the temperature of the subterraneall regions, the temperature of the submarine regions, the bottom of the sea : to which is prafixt, An introduction to the history of particular qvalities by Robert Boyle ( Book )
42 editions published between 1670 and 1973 in English and Undetermined and held by 711 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Some considerations touching the vsefulnesse of experimental naturall philosophy propos'd in familiar discourses to a friend, by way of invitation to the study of it by Robert Boyle ( Book )
82 editions published between 1663 and 1977 in English and Latin and held by 680 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Some letters containing an account of what seemed most remarkable in Switzerland, Italy, &c by Gilbert Burnet ( Book )
46 editions published between 1686 and 1687 in English and held by 590 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

An essay about the origine and virtues of gems by Robert Boyle ( Book )
30 editions published between 1672 and 1973 in English and English, Old and held by 495 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Selected philosophical papers of Robert Boyle by Robert Boyle ( Book )
12 editions published between 1979 and 1991 in English and held by 491 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Hydrostatical paradoxes made out by new experiments, for the most physical and easie by Robert Boyle ( Book )
58 editions published between 1666 and 1973 in 3 languages and held by 484 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Reproduction of original in Huntington Library. (marc) 13161211. (stc) Wing B3985. (stc) Madan 2738. (stc) Fulton, J. Bibl. of Robert Boyle 72. (vid) 98187. (DLPS) A28989.0001.001. http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A28989.0001.001. http://quod.lib.umich.edu/t/text/accesspolicy.html. This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. Searching, reading, printing, or downloading EEBO-TCP texts is reserved for the authorized users of these project partner institutions. Permission must be granted for subsequent distribution, in print or electronically, of this text, in whole or in part. Please contact project staff at eebotcp-info@umich.edu for further information or permissions. Hydrostatics -- Early works to 1800

Salt-water sweetned, or, A true account of the great advantages of this new invention both by sea and by land together with a full and satisfactory answer to all apparent difficulties : also the approbation of the Colledge of Physicians : likewise a letter of the honourable Robert Boyle to a friend upon the same subject by R Fitzgerald ( )
16 editions published between 1683 and 1985 in English and held by 470 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Medicinal experiments, or, A collection of choice and safe remedies for the most part simple and easily prepared, useful in families, and very serviceable to country people by Robert Boyle ( Book )
78 editions published between 1692 and 1970 in 3 languages and held by 464 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"A table of diseases" [i.e. index]: p. [1]-[11] in second grouping. Added t.p. and separate paging ([2], 17 p. at end): A catalogue of the philosophical books and tracts, written by the Honourable Robert Boyle ... together with the order or time wherein each of them hath been publish'd respectively : to which is added, a catalogue of the theological books, written by the same author. Imperfect: Fulton calls for an engraved port. lacking in filmed copy. Reproduction of original in Huntington Library. (marc) 12770244. (stc) Wing B3989. (stc) Arber's Term cat. II 403. (stc) Fulton, J. Bibl. of Robert Boyle 179. (vid) 93647. (DLPS) A28992.0001.001. http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A28992.0001.001. http://quod.lib.umich.edu/t/text/accesspolicy.html. This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. Searching, reading, printing, or downloading EEBO-TCP texts is reserved for the authorized users of these project partner institutions. Permission must be granted for subsequent distribution, in print or electronically, of this text, in whole or in part. Please contact project staff at eebotcp-info@umich.edu for further information or permissions. Boyle, Robert, -- 1627-1691 -- Bibliography. Medicine -- 15th-18th centuries. Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions

An essay of the great effects of even languid and unheeded motion whereunto is annexed, An experimental discourse of some little observed causes of the insalubrity and salubrity of the air and its effects by Robert Boyle ( Book )
37 editions published between 1685 and 1690 in English and Undetermined and held by 460 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The origine of formes and qualities (according to the corpuscular philosophy) illustrated by considerations and experiments : (Written formerly by way of notes upon an essay about nitre) by Robert Boyle ( Book )
34 editions published between 1666 and 2011 in English and Undetermined and held by 451 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Memoirs for the natural history of humane blood especially the spirit of that liquor by Robert Boyle ( Book )
41 editions published between 1683 and 1990 in 3 languages and held by 443 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

New experiments physico-mechanicall, touching the spring of the air, and its effects (made, for the most part, in a new pneumatical engine) : written by way of letter to the Right Honorable Charles, Lord Vicount of Dungarvan, eldest son to the Earl of Corke by Robert Boyle ( Book )
74 editions published between 1660 and 1973 in 3 languages and held by 437 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Tracts written by the Honourable Robert Boyle containing New experiments, touching the relation betwixt flame and air, and about explosions, an hydrostatical discourse occasion'd by some objections of Dr. Henry More against some explications of new experiments made by the author of these tracts : to which is annex't, An hydrostatical letter, dilucidating an experiment about a way of weighing water in water, new experiments, of the positive or relative levity of bodies under water, of the air's spring on bodies under water, about the differing pressure of heavy solids and fluids by Robert Boyle ( Book )
30 editions published between 1670 and 1673 in English and Undetermined and held by 419 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A defence of the doctrine touching the spring and weight of the air by Robert Boyle ( Book )
24 editions published between 1662 and 1967 in English and held by 383 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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