Author:Robert Boyle (1627-1691)

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Robert Boyle (1627–1691)

sister projects: Wikipedia article, Commons gallery, quotes. Robert Boyle was a natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, inventor, and early gentleman scientist, noted for his work in physics and chemistry. He is best known for the formulation of Boyle's law. Although his research and personal philosophy clearly has its roots in the alchemical tradition, he is largely regarded today as the first modern chemist, and therefore one of the founders of modern chemistry. Among his works, The Sceptical Chymist is seen as a cornerstone book in the field of chemistry.

Robert Boyle

Works

Chemistry/Alchemy

• New Experiments Physico-Mechanical: Touching the Spring of the Air and their Effects {1660)
• The Sceptical Chymist (1661)
• Considerations touching the Usefulness of Experimental Natural Philosophy (1663)
• Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours (1664)[1]
• New Experiments and Observations upon Cold (1665)
• Hydrostatical Paradoxes (1666)
• Origin of Forms and Qualities according to the Corpuscular Philosophy (1666)
• Cosmical Qualities of Things, the Temperature of the Subterraneal and Submarine Regions, the Bottom of the Sea, &c. (1670)
• Origin and Virtues of Gems (1672)
• Essays of the Strange Subtilty, Great Efficacy, Determinate Nature of Effluviums (1673)
• Experiments and Notes about the Mechanical Origin or Production of Particular Qualities (1676)
• Observations upon an artificial Substance that Shines without any Preceding Illustration (1678)
• Aerial Noctiluca (1680)
• New Experiments and Observations upon the Icy Noctiluca (1682)
• Memoirs for the Natural History of the Human Blood (1684)
• Short Memoirs for the Natural Experimental History of Mineral Waters (1685)
• A Free Enquiry into the Vulgarly Received Notion of Nature (1686)
• Medicina Hydrostatica (1690)
• Experimentae et Observationes Physicae (1691)

Religion and Philosophy

• Seraphic Love (1648, first published 1660)
• Essay upon the Style of the Holy Scriptures (1663)[2]
• Excellence of Theology compared with Natural Philosophy (1664)
• Occasional Reflections upon Several Subjects (1665)
• Some Considerations about the Reconcileableness of Reason and Religion (1675)
• Discourse of Things above Reason (1681)
• High Veneration Man owes to God (1685)[3]
• A Free Inquiry into the vulgarly received Notion of Nature (1686)
• The Martyrdom of Theodora And Didymus (1687)[4]
• Christian Virtuoso (1690)

Posthumous works

• The General History of the Air designed and begun (1692)
• Medicinal Experiments (1692-1698)
• A Free Discourse against Customary Swearing (1695)

Works about Robert Boyle

• The Hon. Robert Boyle from A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature
• A review of New Experiments and Observations upon Cold in Vol. 1 No. 1 of the Royal Societies Philosophical Transactions
• Multiple mentions of Boyle and his works, in Diary of Samuel Pepys
• Meditations Upon a Broomstick, by Jonathan Swift parodies Boyle's Occasional Reflections upon Several Subjects.

Resources/Misc

• Robert Boyle Project, pagescans of (some) Robert Boyle papers at the Royal Society
• Robert Boyle's workdiaries
• The Philosophical Works of the Honourable Robert Boyle Esq. Volume 2
• Of a Degradation of Gold made by an anti-elixir: a strange chymical narrative. (1678) 1739 edition, no pagescans
• Sceptical Chymist in latin

Works by this author published before January 1, 1923 are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.