Author:Robert Boyle (1627-1691)

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Robert Boyle
(1627–1691)

Robert Boyle

Works

Chemistry/Alchemy

• New Experiments Physico-Mechanical: Touching the Spring of the Air and their Effects (1660)
• The Sceptical Chymist (1661)
• Considerations touching the Usefulness of Experimental Natural Philosophy (1663)
• Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours (1664)[1]
• New Experiments and Observations upon Cold (1665)
• Hydrostatical Paradoxes (1666)
• Origin of Forms and Qualities according to the Corpuscular Philosophy (1666)
• Cosmical Qualities of Things, the Temperature of the Subterraneal and Submarine Regions, the Bottom of the Sea, &c. (1670)
• Origin and Virtues of Gems (1672)
• Essays of the Strange Subtilty, Great Efficacy, Determinate Nature of Effluviums (1673)
• Experiments and Notes about the Mechanical Origine or Production of Electricity (1675)
• Experiments and Notes about the Mechanical Origin or Production of Particular Qualities (1676)
• Observations upon an artificial Substance that Shines without any Preceding Illustration (1678)
• Aerial Noctiluca (1680)
• New Experiments and Observations upon the Icy Noctiluca (1682)
• Memoirs for the Natural History of the Human Blood (1684)
• Short Memoirs for the Natural Experimental History of Mineral Waters (1685)
• A Free Enquiry into the Vulgarly Received Notion of Nature (1686)
• Medicina Hydrostatica (1690)
• Experimentae et Observationes Physicae (1691)

Natural Philosophy

• Disquisition about the Final Causes of Natural Things (1688)
• Some Physico-Theological Considerations about the Possibility of the Resurrection (1675)

Religion and Philosophy

• Seraphic Love (1648, first published 1660)
• Essay upon the Style of the Holy Scriptures (1663)[2]
• Excellence of Theology compared with Natural Philosophy (1664)
• Occasional Reflections upon Several Subjects (1665)
• Some Considerations about the Reconcileableness of Reason and Religion (1675)
• Discourse of Things above Reason (1681)
• High Veneration Man owes to God (1685)[3]
• A Free Inquiry into the vulgarly received Notion of Nature (1686)
• The Martyrdom of Theodora And Didymus (1687)[4]
• Christian Virtuoso (1690)

Posthumous works

• The General History of the Air designed and begun (1692)
• Medicinal Experiments (1692-1698)
• A Free Discourse against Customary Swearing (1695)

Works about Boyle

• "Boyle, Robert," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Boyle, The Hon. Robert," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Boyle, Robert," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• A review of New Experiments and Observations upon Cold in Vol. 1 No. 1 of the Royal Society's Philosophical Transactions
• Multiple mentions of Boyle and his works, in Diary of Samuel Pepys
• Meditations Upon a Broomstick, by Jonathan Swift parodies Boyle's Occasional Reflections upon Several Subjects.