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Collapse RB - The Robert Boyle Collection

RB - The Robert Boyle Collection

Expand 1 - Boyle Papers

1 - Boyle Papers

Collapse 2 - Notebooks of Robert Boyle and others

2 - 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 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.

Expand 16 - MS 185

Expand 17 - MS 186

Expand 18 - MS 187

Expand 19 - MS 188

Expand 20 - MS 189

Expand 21 - MS 190

Collapse 22 - MS 191

1 - List of Boyle's papers in 'new Press', dated 22 July 1688

2 - Introductory material to sequel to 'Alcali and Acid' ('Mechanical Qualities').

3 - Original version of part of 'Christ. Virt., I'.

4 - Note on how disuse or disease can make the eye very sensitive to light.

5 - Material intended for appendix to 'Final Causes'.

6 - Part of experimental discourse involving sparks produced from quicklime by spirit of salt.

7 - Text on phenomena of shining fishes and luminous sea.

8 - Tiny fragment of discourse.

9 - MS version of part of preface to 'Christ. Virt., I'.

10 - Brief note, evidently for letter draft.

11 - MS version of part of 'Christ. Virt., I'.

12 - `The first sort of the Uses of Destillation tends to the Examen of the Genuineness or Adulterateness of Medicines.'

13 - Note on `some experiments or phaenomena supernaturall', witnessed by `A Dr of physick ingeneious learned, sober [and] reserved'.

14 - Part of introduction to unpublished part of 'Strange Reports' ('Exp. & Obs. Physicae').

15 - Material intended for appendix to 'Final Causes'.

16 - Original version of part of 'Christ. Virt., I'.

17 - Introduction to series of experiments.

18 - Section of text of sequel to 'Alcali and Acid' ('Mechanical Qualities').

19 - MS version of part of 'Christ. Virt., I'.

20 - Parts of theological works, dealing with role of human faculties and natural philosophy in comprehending God, etc.

Expand 23 - MS 192

Expand 24 - 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 195

Expand 27 - MS 196

Expand 28 - MS 197

Expand 29 - MS 198

Expand 30 - MS 199

Expand 31 - MS 200

Expand 3 - The Boyle Letters

3 - The Boyle Letters

Botanical paintings by Jacob van Huysum and William Sartorius

Botanical paintings by Jacob van Huysum and William Sartorius

Tweets by theRCN

Campi Phlegraei

Campi Phlegraei

Papers of Elsie Widdowson and Robert McCance

Papers of Elsie Widdowson and Robert McCance

Referees’ Reports

Referees’ Reports

Botanical paintings by Jacob van Huysum and William Sartorius

Botanical paintings by Jacob van Huysum and William Sartorius

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