Boyle, Robert 1627-1691

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Works:	1,846 works in 4,925 publications in 2 languages and 61,341 library holdings
Genres:	History Criticism, interpretation, etc Biography Prescriptions, formulae, receipts, etc Church history Portraits
Roles:	Editor, Correspondent, Dedicatee, Recipient, Other, Honoree, Attributed name, 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

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 ( )
The evidences of the Christian religion by Joseph Addison ( )
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 ( )
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 )
Robert Boyle and seventeenth-century chemistry by Marie Boas Hall ( Book )
The evidences of the Christian religion. By the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq; to which are added, several discourses against atheism and infidelity, and in defence of the Christian revelation, occasionally published by him and others: and now collected into one body, and digested under their proper heads. With a preface, containing the sentiments of Mr. Boyle, Mr. Lock, and Sir Isaac Newton, concerning the Gospel-revelation by Joseph Addison ( )
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, father of chemistry by Roger Pilkington ( Book )
Robert Boyle reconsidered by Michael Cyril William Hunter ( Book )

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Most widely held works by Robert Boyle

Some motives and incentives to the love of God by Robert Boyle ( Book )
111 editions published between 1659 and 2005 in English and held by 1,642 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The sceptical chymist by Robert Boyle ( Book )
30 editions published between 1661 and 2006 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,268 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 )
35 editions published between 1664 and 2011 in English and held by 881 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 Undetermined and held by 852 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 )
34 editions published between 1661 and 1675 in English and held by 643 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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 )
27 editions published between 1685 and 1690 in English and held by 535 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Some letters containing an account of what seemed most remarkable in Switzerland, Italy &c. by Gilbert Burnet ( Book )
34 editions published between 1686 and 1687 in English and held by 527 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Certain physiological essays written at distant times, and on several occasions by Robert Boyle ( Book )
49 editions published between 1661 and 1973 in English and held by 512 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 493 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Tracts by Robert Boyle ( Book )
23 editions published between 1671 and 1973 in English and held by 482 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

An essay about the origine and virtues of gems by Robert Boyle ( Book )
26 editions published between 1672 and 2011 in English and held by 472 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 )
22 editions published between 1666 and 1972 in English and held by 410 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Memoirs for the natural history of humane blood especially the spirit of that liquor by Robert Boyle ( Book )
28 editions published between 1683 and 1990 in English and held by 392 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A defence of the doctrine touching the spring and weight of the air by Robert Boyle ( Book )
18 editions published between 1662 and 1967 in English and held by 390 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

New experiments, and observations, made upon the icy noctiluca imparted in a letter to a friend living in the country : to which is annexed A chymical paradox by Robert Boyle ( Book )
27 editions published between 1681 and 1974 in English and Latin and held by 387 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Occasional reflections upon several subiects, whereto is premis'd a discourse about such kind of thoughts by Robert Boyle ( Book )
18 editions published between 1665 and 1848 in English and Undetermined and held by 377 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A free enquiry into the vulgarly received notion of nature by Robert Boyle ( Book )
10 editions published between 1996 and 2001 in English and held by 370 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"The main objective of Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy is to expand the range, variety, and quality of texts in the history of philosophy which are available in English. The series includes texts by familiar names (such as Descartes and Kant) and also by less well-known authors. Wherever possible, texts are published in complete and unabridged form, and translations are specially commissioned for the series. Each volume contains a critical introduction together with a guide to further reading and any necessary glossaries and textual apparatus. The volumes are designed for student use at undergraduate and postgraduate level, and will be of interest not only to students of philosophy, but also to a wider audience of readers in the history of science, the history of theology, and the history of ideas." "In this book, published in 1686, the scientist Robert Boyle (1627-91) attacked prevailing notions of the natural world which depicted 'Nature' as a wise, benevolent and purposeful being. Boyle, one of the leading mechanical philosophers of his day, believed that the world was best understood as a vast, impersonal machine, fashioned by an infinite, personal God. In this cogent treatise, he drew on his scientific findings, his knowledge of contemporary medicine and his deep reflection on theological and philosophical issues, arguing that it was inappropriate both theologically and scientifically to speak of Nature as if it had a mind of its own: instead, the only true efficient causes of things were the properties and powers given to matter by God. As such, A Free Enquiry into the Vulgarly Received Notion of Nature represents one of the subtlest statements concerning the philosophical issues raised by the mechanical philosophy to emerge from the period of the scientific revolution. Book jacket."--Jacket

Essays of the strange subtilty, great efficacy, determinate nature of effluviums to which are annext New experiments to make fire and flame ponderable, together with A discovery of the perviousness of glass by Robert Boyle ( Book )
14 editions published in 1673 in English and held by 358 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 )
41 editions published between 1692 and 1970 in English and held by 345 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Experiments, notes, &c., about the mechanical origine or production of divers particular qualities among which is inserted a discourse of the imperfection of the chymist's doctrine of qualities : together with some reflections upon the hypothesis of alcali and acidum by Robert Boyle ( Book )
22 editions published between 1675 and 1973 in English and held by 339 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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