The Works of Robert Boyle

Part II Volume 8 Excellency of Theology, 1674 Hidden Qualities of the Air, 1674 Reason and Religion, 1675 Mechanical Origin of Qualities, 1675 Phil. Trans. items, 1674-6 Volume 9 Degradation of Gold, 1678 Producibleness of Chymical Principles, 1680 Spring of the Air, 2nd Continuation Eng. trans., 1682 Aerial Noctiluca, 1680 Icy Noctiluca, 1682 Things above Reason, 1681 Salt-water Sweetened, 1683 Items contributed to Hooke's Philosophical Collections and various Phil. Trans. articles Volume 10 Natural History of Human Blood, 1684 Experiments about Porosity, 1684 High Veneration to God, 1684-5 Experimental History of Mineral Waters, 1685 Languid and Unheeded Motion, 1685 Specific Medicines, 1685 Vulgarly Receiv'd Notion of Nature, 1686 Volume 11 Martyrdom of Theodora, 1687 Final Causes, 1688 Advertisement, 1688 Some Receipts of Medicines, 1688 Catalogue of Writings, 1688 Medicina Hydrostatica, 1690 Christian Virtuoso, 1690-1 Experimenta et Observationes Physicae, 1691 Volume 12 Posthumous Phil. Trans. papers General History of the Air, 1692 Medicinal Experiments, 1692-4 Discourse against Customary Swearing, 1695, Christian Virtuoso I, Appendix, and II, 1744 Papers in Birch's Life of Boyle, 1744 Volumes 13-14 Hitherto unpublished writings by Boyle, representing the most substantial publication of new material by him since his lifetime. These include such early writings as the original version of Boyle's Martyrdom of Theodora writings from Boyle's early scientific phase in the early1650s discarded sections of published works, including Usefulness of Natural Philosophy and Vulgarly Receiv'd Notion of Nature and fragments of works never published.Also included is a complete text of Boyle's inventories of his unpublished writings, a key source for his intellectual evolution, and an index to the edition as a whole.