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Expand 1 - Boyle Papers1 - Boyle Papers
Collapse 2 - Notebooks of Robert Boyle and others2 - Notebooks of Robert Boyle and others
Expand 1 - Collection of alchemical tracts formerly owned by Sir Kenelm Digby.1 - Collection of alchemical tracts formerly owned by Sir Kenelm Digby.
2 - 'Excerpta made out of severall Authors. AD 1663': a commonplace book. Extracts from travel books, medical works and books on natural philosophy.
Expand 3 - Catalogue of John Warr's library and miscellaneous notes.3 - Catalogue of John Warr's library and miscellaneous notes.
4 - Concordance of medical data, arranged alphabetically by heading, part 1.
5 - Concordance of medical data, arranged alphabetically by heading, part 2.
6 - 'Clangor Buccinae: Le Son de Trompete ou du Clarion. Traicte excellent & admirable racceuilly d'une excripture fort ancienne: dicourant a tous philosophes fidellement & physicalement de la Pierre des Philosophes, Mis en francois par I. Fornier. 1573.
7 - Series of sermons on Phil. 4. 8.
8 - Medical commonplace book used by Boyle and Lady Ranelagh.
Expand 9 - MS 439 - MS 43
Expand 10 - Boyle's Geneva notebook.10 - Boyle's Geneva notebook.
11 - 'On the spirit of a Man' Theological treatise on text of 1 Thessalonians 5. 25.
12 - 'Enarratio methodica trium Geberi medicinarum in quibus continetur vera Lapidus Philosophici confectio'.
13 - George Starkey, Laboratory notebook.
14 - Concordance of medical data, arranged alphabetically by heading, part 1.
15 - Concordance of medical data, arranged alphabetically by heading, part 2.
Collapse 16 - MS 18516 - MS 185
1 - 'Titles of Mr.[Boyle's] Theological Tracts' and notes on weights of spheres.
2 - Summary of points in a theological treatise.
3 - 'Fragmenta Theologica Minora, or Theological Notes of my own...' (title-page).
4 - Advertisement concerning confused state of published works.
5 - Commentary on passage of Galen (fols. 10-11); introduction to section of discourse on the principal difficulties in Christianity (fols. 11v-12); and notes on propagation of Gospel (fol. 14).
6 - MS version of introduction to putative second edition of 'Human Blood'.
7 - Part of a sentence only.
8 - Section of text on the nature of light.
9 - Unpublished remarks on the medical uses of distillation.
10 - Arguments used to demonstrate truth or otherwise of religion.
11 - MS material for intended Appendix to 'Final Causes'.
12 - On degrees and kinds of knowledge of natural beings (fols. 32v-34), the perfect knowledge and understanding possessed by God, and the various degrees of it which he gave to his creatures (fols. 35v-37).
13 - `Advertisement' to an unpublished essay `written many years since', to show that light's `origine is mechanical'.
14 - The nature of the eye.
15 - Structure of hypotheses, and their division into general and particular.
16 - MS version of parts of 'Christ. Virt., I'.
17 - Paragraph on arguments from God's perfection.
18 - MS version of part of 'Christ. Virt., I'.
19 - MS version of parts of 'Christ. Virt., I'.
20 - Material relating to 'Christ. Virt., I'.
21 - Passage of text on works written in dialogue form
22 - Material relating to 'Christ. Virt., I'.
23 - Introductory remarks concerning types of notes used by author.
24 - 'Tryals to be made on humane blood', apparently for second edition of 'Human Blood'.
25 - Directions for letters to Vienna.
26 - MS version of parts of 'Christ. Virt., I, Appendix'.
27 - 'Advertisement about the Marginal Addi[tio]ns of the Writer'.
28 - 'Of two Distinctions of 'Hypotheses''.
29 - Part of introduction to sequel on 'materia medica' and note on use of a preamble.
Expand 17 - MS 18617 - MS 186
Expand 18 - MS 18718 - MS 187
Expand 19 - MS 18819 - MS 188
Expand 20 - MS 18920 - MS 189
Expand 21 - MS 19021 - MS 190
Expand 22 - MS 19122 - MS 191
Expand 23 - MS 19223 - MS 192
Expand 24 - MS 19324 - MS 193
Expand 25 - Miscellaneous chymical recipes and material concerning Boyle's accounts and landholdings [Workdiary 33].25 - Miscellaneous chymical recipes and material concerning Boyle's accounts and landholdings [Workdiary 33].
Expand 26 - MS 19526 - MS 195
Expand 27 - MS 19627 - MS 196
Expand 28 - MS 19728 - MS 197
Expand 29 - MS 19829 - MS 198
Expand 30 - MS 19930 - MS 199
Expand 31 - MS 20031 - MS 200
Expand 3 - The Boyle Letters3 - The Boyle Letters
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Botanical paintings by Jacob van Huysum and William Sartorius

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