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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
Collapse 18 - MS 18718 - MS 187
1 - Unpaginated leaf, verso: 'Memorandum'.
2 - God's attributes and nature.
3 - Part of dialogue.
4 - On verso, note on list of experiments or recipes.
5 - Section of text on Boyle's medical views.
6 - Fragment of `Dialogue on the Generation and Transmutation of Metals'.
7 - Proposal to divide following collection between 'Theoricall' and 'Historicall'.
8 - Text concerning calculation of specific gravity of stones, etc.
9 - 'Postscript' concerning minerals.
10 - Calculation of specific gravities of fluid.
11 - Note on limited availability of antimonial glass.
12 - 'The requisites of a good Hypothesis' (verse) (cf. BP 36, fols. 57-8, but up to rule 5 only).
13 - MS version of sequel pointing out that the 'Advertisement' explains why the notes sent to him are in so confused a form.
14 - List of phenomena for 'Exp. et Obs. Physicae'.
15 - Section of text on value of cold drinks.
16 - MS version of part of 'Christ. Virt., II'.
17 - Notes on weighing quicksilver; experiment with gold.
18 - Chemical processes for analysis of ore.
19 - Introduction to work on uses of experience in natural philosophy.
20 - Introduction to unpublished tract on inflammability.
21 - 'A list of books provided & to be provyded for the Collection making by Mr. Boyle of books tending to the proofe & defence of the truth of the Christian Religion'.
22 - Discarded version of `Advertisement' to `Strange Reports' ('Exp. et Obs. Physicae').
23 - How a manuscript by van Helmont came to London, but only one sheet of it escaped the Great Fire.
24 - Requisites of a parable medicine.
25 - Unpublished paragraph on the usefulness of `the Chromatick Examen of bodies'.
26 - MS version of part of 'Exp. et Obs. Physicae'.
27 - Boyle's notes on the contents and whereabouts of the second part of the 'Christ. Virt.', with additional comments comparing the disorganized state of this book to 'Style of the Scriptures'.
28 - Disposition of French armies as of 'May 29. [16]91'.
29 - 'A Notable comminution of Gold into powder that will sinke in water' (title only).
30 - MS version of part of 'Christ. Virt., II'.
31 - Things to remember.
32 - Explanation for author's care in differentiating personal knowledge from hearsay.
33 - Section of text dealing with the particulars recommended by Boyle to 'Trallianus'.
34 - `The 2d Tome of Expta & Obs: Physicae consists of these chapters & Titles'.
35 - MS version of advertisement at the end of chapter II in `Greatness of Mind' ('Christ. Virt., I').
36 - Introductory material on parable medicines.
37 - Notes on experiments about cold.
38 - Material relating to 'Christ. Virt., I'.
39 - Notes on types of experiments.
40 - MS version of part of 'Christ. Virt., II'.
41 - Explanation of content of accompanying paper.
42 - 'Memoires for an Exp[eri]mental History of the Principles of mixt Bodys. Especially those asserted by the Chymists' (title only).
43 - MS version of part of 'Exp. et Obs. Physicae'.
44 - Address.
45 - Note on categories of fragmentary writings.
46 - List of topics to `R[emembe]r', probably related to unpublished part of `Strange Reports' ('Exp. et Obs. Physicae').
47 - Notes on materials from which cheap medicines available.
48 - Excerpt from preface to unpublished essay on flame, `to show in general that Flame & by consequence Inflammability may have a mechanical Origine, or if you please be mechanically producible.'
49 - Note on 'aurum fulminans'.
50 - Introduction to philosophical or theological fragments.
51 - Discarded version of preface of 'Medicinal Experiments'.
52 - Account of conversation with the Bishop of St. Asaph [William Lloyd] about events in Piedmont and Savoy, 'Jun. 22 1690'.
53 - Material relating to 'Medicina Hydrostatica'.
54 - Introductory material on corruption and preservation of bodies.
55 - Importance of 'indagatory, detecting or Exploratory ways of Tryals'.
56 - Note on fragment inserted in unnamed text, perhaps 'Experimenta et Observationes Physicae'.
57 - Paragraph on inflammability, apparently intended for unpublished 'Mechanical Origin of Flame'.
58 - Note excusing incomplete and chaotic state of account of observations on chameleon.
59 - Introduction to a collection of experiments: perhaps 'Experimenta et Observationes Physicae'.
60 - Material relating to 'Exp. et Obs. Physicae'.
61 - Unpublished chromatic experiment on a `spoonful of Serum of humane blood'.
62 - Comment on work on reason and religion.
63 - Experiment with human blood.
64 - MS version of part of 'Christ. Virt., I, Appendix'.
65 - Verses on philosophy and religion.
66 - Notes on union of body and soul.
67 - List of 'fragmenta philosophica', unpublished works by Boyle.
68 - Experiments on inflammability, apparently intended for unpublished 'Mechanical Origin of Flame'.
69 - Examination of liquid/fragmentary body.
70 - General note concerning collection of Boyle's writings.
71 - Part of letter agreeing to send processes to correspondent.
72 - Note accompanying account of a useful menstruum.
73 - List of experiments, perhaps for 'Exp. et Obs. Physicae'.
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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