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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.
Expand 16 - MS 18516 - MS 185
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
Collapse 29 - MS 19829 - MS 198
1 - MS version of part of 'Notion of Nature'.
2 - Introductory material for theological treatise.
3 - MS version of part of 'Exp. et Obs. Physicae'.
4 - Single sentence about how this book of receipts differs from others.
5 - Unpublished report about the sky and sea during eruption of Mt Aetna in 1670, obtained from `A Minister of State'.
6 - Experiments on quicksilver.
7 - Long, unpublished paragraph describing an experiment to time the ascent of a glass bubble in oil and in water, showing that the ball ascended `by the Extrusion of the Liquors' rather than `by any positive Levity' it is purported to possess; in response to
8 - Unpublished paragraph calling attention to `two or three very Ingenious Men' who defended the Aristotelian 'horror vacui' in spite of their perception that it was not `defensible upon the Vulgar Grounds', and who had `of late ... startled some eminen
9 - Part of dialogue concerning metalline bodies and note on effect of vinuous spirit on 'Anomalous Gold'.
10 - Covering letter for material relating to Boyle's attack on orthodox medical practice.
11 - Part of introduction to essay on effects of mechanical laws of motion.
12 - Theology.
13 - MS version of introduction to 'Specific Medicines'.
14 - MS version of part of 'Human Blood'.
15 - Notes on discriminating false miracles.
16 - Addendum to text of 'Mineral Waters'.
17 - Unpublished paragraph from the introduction to the putative Appendix to 'Hydrostatical Paradoxes'.
18 - Reasons for including some titles of supposedly minor import in the following 'Scheme'.
19 - Short section of dialogue on alchemy.
20 - MS version of preface to `Salubrity of Air' ('Languid Motion').
21 - MS version of part of 'Final Causes'.
22 - MS version of part of 'High Veneration'.
23 - MS version of part of `Salubrity of the Air' ('Languid Motion').
24 - MS version of `Advantages of the Use of Simple Medicines' ('Specific Medicines').
25 - Unpublished passage outlining Boyle's plan to write `the proposed History of the Air' in several sections.
26 - Material relating to 'Aerial Noctiluca'.
27 - Unpublished observation about the colour of blood obtained in a phlebotomy performed in Boyle's presence on `A Lady of a middle age & sanguine Complexion, being afraid of a Relapse into an Inflammatory Distemper' and observations on phlebotomy from `A lea
28 - MS version of part of `Salubrity of Air' ('Languid Motion').
29 - MS version of part of 'Porosity'.
30 - MS version of part of sequel to 'Salt-Water Sweetn'd' ('Phil. Trans.', 1693).
31 - Material relating to 'Final Causes' and 'Human Blood'.
32 - Unpublished experiments on air pressure and suction.
33 - MS version of part of sequel to 'Salt-Water Sweetn'd' ('Phil. Trans.', 1693).
34 - 'Concerning God's ends and human understanding'.
35 - Experiments on tincturification; glass of antimony; rectified spirit of wine.
36 - Unpublished descriptions of `the 'Travelling Baroscope'' and `the 'Mercurial Syphon'', with experiments on air pressure and suction carried out with them.
37 - Relationship of miracles to laws of nature.
38 - Opening to letter condemning 'Christian' attack on virtues admired even among pagans.
39 - Material relating to 'Porosity'.
40 - 'A List of my Tracts Relating to the Hermetical Philosophy'.
41 - List of heads of `Dialogue on the Generation and Transmutation of Metals'.
Expand 30 - MS 19930 - MS 199
Expand 31 - MS 20031 - MS 200
Expand 3 - The Boyle Letters3 - The Boyle Letters
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