Works by Robert Boyle
Prose
- An Advertisement of Mr Boyle about the Loss of Many of his Writings
- The Aerial Noctiluca: Or Some New Phenomena, and a Process of A Factitious Self-Shining Substance
- An Appendix to the First Part of the Christian Virtuoso
- A Catalogue of the Philosophical Books and Tracts Written by the Honourable Robert Boyle Esquire
- Close section Certain Physiological Essays
- Close section The Christian Virtuoso
- The Christian Virtuoso, The Second Part
- A Continuation of New Experiments Physico-Mechanical Touching the Spring and Weight of the Air, and their Effects
- A Continuation of New Experiments Physico-Mechanical Touching the Spring and Weight of the Air, And their Effects: The Second Part
- A Defence of the Doctrine Touching the Spring and Weight of the Air
- The Devil of Mascon (trans.)
- Close section A Discourse of Things above Reason
- Close section A Disquisition about the Final Causes of Natural Things
- An Essay about the Origin and Virtues of Gems (1672)
- Close section An Essay of the Great Effects of Even Languid and Unheeded Motion
- Essays of Effluviums (1673)
- An Examen of Mr T. Hobbes' Dialogus Physicus De Natura Aeris
- Close section The Excellency of Theology, Compared with Natural Philosophy
- Close section Experimenta et Observationes Physicae
- Experiments and Considerations about the Porosity of Bodies, in two Essays
- Experiments and Notes about the Producibleness of Chemical Principles
- Close section Experiments touching Colours
- Close section
Experiments, Notes, &c., about the Mechanical Origin or Production of diverse particular Qualities
- Of the Mechanical Origin of Heat and Cold
- Experiments, and Observations, about the Mechanical Production of Tastes
- Experiments, and Observations, about the Mechanical Production of Odours
- Of the Imperfection of the Chemists' Doctrine of Qualities
- Reflections upon the Hypothesis of Alkali and Acid
- Experiments, and Notes, about The Mechanical Origin and Production of Volatility
- Experimental Notes of the Mechanical Origin or Production of Fixedness
- Experiments and Notes about the Mechanical Origin or Production of Corrosiveness and Corrosibility
- Of the Mechanical Causes of Chemical Precipitation
- Experiments and Notes about the Mechanical Production of Magnetism
- Experiments and Notes about the Mechanical Origin or Production of Electricity
- A Free Discourse against Customary Swearing and a Dissuasive from Cursing
- A Free Enquiry into the Vulgarly Received Notion of Nature
- The General History of the Air
- Hydrostatical Paradoxes (1666)
- An Invitation to Free Communication
- Large Act of Anatomy (trans.)
- The Martyrdom of Theodora, and of Didymus
- Medicina Hydrostatica: or, Hydrostatics applied to the Materia Medica
- Close section Medicinal Experiments
- Memoirs for the Natural History of Humane Blood, Especially The Spirit of that Liquor
- Close section New Experiments and Observations Made upon the Icy Noctiluca
- New Experiments concerning the Relation between Light and Air
- Close section New Experiments touching Cold
- New Pneumatical Experiments about Respiration
- Occasional Reflections upon Several Subjects (1665)
- Of a Degradation of Gold Made by an Anti-Elixir: A Strange Chemical Narrative
- Of Absolute Rest in Bodies (1669)
- Of the High Veneration Man's Intellect owes to God: Peculiarly for His Wisdom and Power
- Of the Reconcileableness of Specific Medicines to the Corpuscular Philosophy
- The Origin of Forms and Qualities (1666-7)
- Close section
Papers in Philosophical Transactions, 1665-7
- An Account of a very odd Monstrous Calf
- An Observation imparted to the Noble Mr Boyle, by Mr David Thomas
- Observables upon a Monstrous Head [of a Colt]
- Some Anatomical Observations
- Of a place in England, where, without petrifying Water, Wood is turned into Stone
- A farther Account of an Observation abovementioned, about white Blood
- A Confirmation of the former Account touching the late Earthquake near Oxford
- Some Observations and Directions about the Barometer
- General Heads for a Natural History of a Country
- A way of preserving Birds taken out of the Egg, and other small Foetuses
- An Account of a New kind of Baroscope, which may be called Statical
- A new Frigorific Experiment showing, how a considerable degree of Cold may be suddenly produced
- Other Inquiries concerning the Sea
- Articles of Inquiries touching Mines
- The Method observed in Transfusing the Blood out of one Animal into another
- Trials for the improvement of Transfusing Blood out of one live Animal into another
- Proposals to try the Effects of the Pneumatic Engine exhausted, in Plants, Seeds, Eggs of Silkworms
- A Confirmation Of the Experiments on injecting Acid Liquors into Blood
- Papers in Philosophical Transactions, 1671-3
- Close section
Papers in Philosophical Transactions, 1674-6
- An Account of the two Sorts of the Helmontian Laudanum
- A Conjecture on the Bladders of Air that are found in Fishes
- A New Essay Instrument
- New Experiments about the weakened Spring, and some unobserved Effects of the Air
- Of the Incalescence of Quicksilver with Gold
- New Experiments about the Superficial Figures of Fluids, especially of Liquors Contingent to other Liquors
- Close section Papers in Robert Hooke's Lectures and Collections and Philosophical Collections and in Philosophical Transactions
- Posthumous papers in Philosophical Transactions
- Salt-water Sweetened: Or, a True Account of the Great Advantages of this New Invention both by Sea and by Land (co-author)
- The Sceptical Chemist
- Seraphic Love
- Short Memoirs for the Natural Experimental History of Mineral Waters
- Close section Some Considerations about the Reconcileableness of Reason and Religion
- Some Considerations touching the Style of the Scriptures
- Some Receipts of Medicines
- The Spring of the Air
- Close section
Texts published in Birch’s 'Life' of Boyle
- Essay of the Holy Scriptures
- i. Sequel to the 1688 advertisement
- ii. Justification of writing on single sheets
- iii. Complaint about plagiarism
- iv. Further complaint about plagiarism
- v. Advertisement curtailing Boyle’s willingness to receive visitors
- vi. Undated letter to 'Mr. N.' prefacing a collection of 'Processes Chymical & Medicinal'
- Tracts By the Honourable Robert Boyle (1673) (Saltness of the Sea)
- Close section Tracts by the Honourable Robert Boyle (1674)
- Tracts of a Discovery of the Admirable Rarefaction of Air
- Tracts written by the Honourable Robert Boyle (1670) (Cosmical Qualities)
- Tracts written by the Honourable Robert Boyle (1672) (Flame and Air)
- The Usefulness of Natural Philosophy, Part I
- The Usefulness of Natural Philosophy, Part II
- The Usefulness of Natural Philosophy; II, sect. 2 (1671)
