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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
Expand 29 - MS 19829 - MS 198
Collapse 30 - MS 19930 - MS 199
1 - Discarded version of preface to `Salubrity of Air' ('Languid Motion').
2 - Passage concerning efficacy of receipts.
3 - Material relating to 'Hydrostatical Paradoxes'.
4 - Material relating to 'Hydrostatical Paradoxes'.
5 - Unpublished account of several experiments with a baroscope and syphon.
6 - MS version of part of 'Final Causes'.
7 - Unpublished account of an experiment with a baroscope.
8 - Notes on precipitations, mineral preparations, etc.
9 - Unpublished account of ways audibly to manifest force of the air's spring.
10 - Superseded version of part of `Salubrity of Air' ('Languid Motion').
11 - Fragment of `Dialogue on the Generation and Transmutation of Metals'.
12 - MS version of part of 'Human Blood'.
13 - MS version of a section of `Medica Praescripta Commicata R.B.'
14 - MS version of part of 'Porosity'.
15 - MS version of part of 'Porosity'.
16 - MS version of part of 'Porosity'.
17 - 'The summary of my opinion about the receiv'd method and practise of Phisick'.
18 - Fragment of `Dialogue on the Generation and Transmutation of Metals'
19 - MS version of part of 'General History of Air'.
20 - Section of text from Boyle's 'Considerations & Doubts Touching the Vulgar Method of Physick'.
21 - Note on weight of 'oculus mundi' (incomplete).
22 - Fragment of `Dialogue on the Generation and Transmutation of Metals'.
23 - Characteristics of mineral waters.
24 - MS versions of parts of 'Final Causes' and 'High Veneration'.
25 - Notes on miracles and the natural order.
26 - MS version of part of 'Human Blood'.
27 - List of Heads concerning the Gall.
28 - MS version of part of 'Final Causes'.
29 - Letter concerning the loss, by `Chance (or which is more likely) Fraud', of `the Manuscript about the Examen & Improvement of the Materia Medica',
30 - MS version of part of 'Final Causes'.
31 - MS version of part of 'General History of Air'.
32 - Notes on barometric observation and on amalgamating gold.
33 - Notes on miracles and the natural order.
34 - MS version of part of `Insalubrity and Salubrity of Air' ('Languid Motion').
35 - Note on ordering of ensuing text.
36 - Note on strange change of colour in New England pond.
37 - Further notes on miracles.
38 - Report by Duke of York concerning ague in Scotland.
39 - List of characters in `Dialogue on the Generation and Transmutation of Metals'.
40 - MS version of part of 'Notion of Nature'.
41 - MS version of part of 'Notion of Nature'
42 - Prescription for writing history of a disease, and note.
Expand 31 - MS 20031 - MS 200
Expand 3 - The Boyle Letters3 - The Boyle Letters
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