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A28941 A catalogue of the philosophical books and tracts written by the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esq. ; together with the order or time wherein each of them hath been publish'd respectively ; to which is added, A catalogue of the theological books, written by the same author. Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691. 1689 (1689) Wing B3928; ESTC R11831 5,558 24

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A CATALOGUE OF THE PHILOSOPHICAL Books and Tracts Written by the Honourable ROBERT BOYLE Esq Together with the ORDER or TIME Wherein Each of them hath been publish'd respectively To which is added A CATALOGUE Of the Theological Books Written by the same AUTHOR In the Savoy Printed by Edw. Jones 1689. A CATALOGUE OF THE PHILOSOPHICAL Books and Tracts Written by the Honourable ROBERT BOYLE Esquire Advertisements of the Publisher 1. Many ingenious Persons especially Strangers having pressingly endeavour'd to procure a Catalogue of the Honourable Mr. Boyles Writings and the Author himself being not at leasure to draw one up 't was thought it might be some satisfaction to those Inquirers if I publish'd the following List as it was drawn out for his own use of the Philosophical Transactions as well as the Printed Volumes by an ingenious French Physician studious of the Authors Writings some of which he Translated and Printed in his own Language 2. The Letter L. affixt in the Margin denotes the Book related to to have been Translated and Publish'd in the Latin Tongue also Several of the rest having likewise been Translated into Latin but not yet Publish'd 3. Those that have an Asterisk prefix'd to them came forth without the Authors Name thô 't is not doubted but they are His. 4. Divers of those mention'd as drawn out of the Transactions did probably come abroad in Latin some of the Transactions themselves having been publish'd in that Language NEw Experiments Physico-Mechanical touching the Spring and Weight of the Air and its Effects made for the most part in a new Pneumatical Engine written by way of Letter to the Right Honourable Charles Lord Viscount of Dungarvan Eldest Son to the Earl of Cork by the Honourable Robert Boyle Esquire A Defence of the Doctrine touching the Spring and Weight of the Air propos'd by the Author in his New Physico-Mechanical Experiments against the Objections of Franciscus Linus wherewith the Objectors Funicular Hypothesis is also examin'd An Examen of Mr. Tho. Hobbes's Dialogus Physicus de Natura Aeris as far as it concerns the Authors Book of New Experiments touching the Spring of the Air with an Appendix touching Mr. Hobbes's Doctrine of Fluidity and Firmness These three together in a Volume in 4º being a second Edition the first at Oxford 1662 had been publish'd Anno 1660. The two others at London 1662 had been publish'd Anno 1661. The Sceptical Chymist c. 1661. Physiological Essays or Tentamina Written and Collected upon divers Times and Occasions with an History of Fluidity and Firmness in 4o. 1662. An Experimental History of Colours begun 8o. 1663. Some Considerations touching the usefulness of Experimental Natural Philosophy propos'd in a familiar Discourse to a Friend by way of Invitation to the study of it a second Edition 4o. Oxford 1664. The first had been publish'd 1663. Of the Usefulness of Natural Philosophy the second Part the first Section of its Usefulness to Physick with an Appendix to this first Section of the second Part 4o. 1669. Of the Usefulness of Experimental Natural Philosophy c. the second Tome containing the later Section of the second Part 4o. Oxford 1671. The first Volume of these Three Books contains five Essays The first Of the Usefulness c. Principally as it relates to the Mind of Man. The second A Continuation of the former The third A further Continuation The fourth A requisite Digression concerning those who would exclude the Deity from intermedling with Matter In the fifth The Discourse interrupted by the late Digression is resum'd and concluded The Second Volume contains likewise five Essays The first Of the Usefulness c. As to the Physiological part of Physick The second As to the Pathological part of Physick The third As to the Semeiotical part of Physick The fourth As to the Hygieinal part of Physick The fifth As to the Therapeutical part of Physick in 20 Chapters The Third Volume contains six Essays The first General Considerations about the Means whereby Experimental Philosophy may become useful to Human Life The second Of the usefulness of Mathematicks to Natural Philosophy The third Of the usefulness of Mechanical Disciplines to Natural Philosophy The fourth That the Goods of Mankind may be much encreas'd by the Naturalists insight into Trades with an Appendix The fifth Of doing by Physical Knowledge what is wont to require Manual Skill The sixth Of Mens great Ignorance of the Uses of Natural Things An Experimental History of Cold and some Discourses Concerning New Thermometrical Experiments and Thoughts about the Doctrine of Antiperistasis with An Examen of Mr. Hobbes's Doctrine touching Cold a second Edition 4º 1665. Attempts of a way to convey Liquors immediately into the Mass of Blood communicated in the Philosophical Transactions of December the 4th 1665. Observations and Experiments upon the Barometer or Ballance of Air invented directed and begun Anno 1659. communicated to Dr. Beal that continu'd them and mention'd in the Transactions of February the 12th and March the 12th 1666. Hydrostatical Paradoxes made out by new Experiments for the most part Physical and easie occasion'd by Monsieur Paschal's Tract of the Equilibrium of Liquors and of the weight of the Air 1666. An account of an Earth-quake near Oxford and the Concomitants thereof communicated in the Philosophical Transactions of April the 2d 1666. New Observations and Directions about the Barometer in the same General Heads for a Natural History of a Country great or small communicated in the same The Origine of Forms and Qualities illustrated by Considerations and Experiments in two Parts 8o. 1666. A way of preserving Birds taken out of the Egg and other small Faetus's communicated in the Philosophical Transactions of May 7th 1666. An Account of a new kind of Baroscope which may be call'd Statical and of some advantages and conveniencies it hath above the Mercurial communicated in the Philosophical Transactions of July the 2d 1666. A new Frigorific Experiment shewing how a considerable degree of Cold may be suddenly produc'd without the help of Snow Ice Hail Wind or Nitre and that at any time of the year communicated in the Philosophical Transactions of July 18th 1666. Tryals propos'd to Dr. Lower for the improvement of transfusing Blood out of one live Animal into another communicated in the Philosophical Transactions of February the 11th 1666. Free Considerations about Subordinate Forms being an Appendix to the Origine of Forms and Qualities publish'd last year and reprinted with this 1667. 8o. A Letter to the Author of the Philosophical Transactions giving an Information of some Experiments which he had made himself several years ago by injecting acid Liquors into Blood upon the occasion of those communicated by Signior Fracassati in a Letter written from Oxford October the 19th 1667. New Experiments concerning the Relation between Light and Air in shining Wood and Fish in a Letter from Oxford to the Publisher of the Philosophical Transactions of January the 6th 1668. A
Continuation of the same Letter in the Philosophical Transactions of February the 10th 1668. A Continuation of new Experiments Physico-Mechanical touching the Spring and Weight of the Air and their Effects The first Part. With a Discourse of the Atmospheres of Consistent Bodies Oxford 1669. An Invention for estimating the Weight of Water with ordinary Ballances and Weights in the Philosophical Transactions of August the 16th 1669. Certain Philosophical Essays and other Tracts a second Edition with a Discourse about the Absolute rest of Bodies 4o. London 1669. The first Edition had been published Anno 1662. New Pneumatical Experiments about Respiration upon Ducks Vipers Frogs c. communicated in the Philosophical Transactions of August 8. 1670. A Continuation of the same Experiments in the Philosophical Transactions of September the 12th 1670. Tracts About the Cosmical Qualities of Things The Temperature of the Subterraneal and Submarine Regions and the bottom of the Sea together with an Introduction to the History of particular Qualities 8o. Oxford 1670. Tracts A Discovery of the admirable Rarefaction of the Air even without Heat New Observations about the duration of the Spring of the Air. New Experiments touching the condensation of the Air by mere Cold and its compression without Mechanical Engines and the admirably differing extensions of the same quantity of Air rarefied and compress'd 4o. London 1670. An Essay about the Origine and Virtues of Gems 8o. London 1672. Some Observations about shining Flesh both of Veal and a Pullet and that without any sensible Putrefaction in those Bodies communicated by way of Letter to the Publisher of the Philosophical Transactions in the Transactions of December the 16th 1672. A new Experiment concerning an effect of the varying weight of the Atmosphere upon some Bodies in the Water the Description whereof was presented to the Lord Broncker Anno 1671. Suggesting a conjecture that the alterations of the very Weight of the Air may have considerable Operations even upon Mens Sickness or Health communicated in the Philosophical Transactions of February the 24th 1673. Tracts Containing new Experiments touching the Relation between Flame and Air and about Explosions An Hydrostatical Discourse occasion'd by some Objections of Dr. Henry Moor c. to which is annexed an Hydrostatical Letter about a way of weighing Water in Water New Experiments of the positive or relative levity of Bodies under Water Of the Airs-Spring on Bodies under Water and about the differing Pressure of heavy Solids and Fluids 8o. London 1672. Essays of the strange Subtilty great Efficacy and determinate Nature of Effluviums to which are annex'd new Experiments to make the Parts of Fire and Flame Stable and Ponderable with Experiments about arresting and weighing of Igneous Corpuscles and a Discovery of the perviousness of Glass to ponderable parts of Flame 8o. London 1673. A Letter of September the 13th 1673. concerning Ambergreece and its being a Vegetable Production mention'd in the Philosophical Transactions of October the 6th 1673. Tracts Observations about the saltness of the Sea An account of the Statical Hygroscope and its Uses together with an Appendix about the force of the Airs Moisture and a Fragment about the Natural and Preternatural state of Bodies To all which is premis'd a Sceptical Dialogue about the positive or privative Nature of Cold 8o. London 1674. A Discourse about the Excellency and Grounds of the Mechanical Hypothesis occasionally propos'd to a Friend annex'd to Another entituled The Excellency of Theology compar'd with Natural Philosophy 8o. London 1674. An account of the two sorts of the Helmontian Laudanum together with the way of the Noble Baron F. M. Van Helmont Son to the famous John Baptista of preparing his Laudanum communicated in the Philosophical Transactions of October 26th 1674. Tracts Containing 1. Suspicions about some hidden Qualities of the Air with an Appendix touching Celestial Magnets and some other Particulars 2. Animadversions upon Mr. Hobbes's Problemata de vacuo 3. A Discourse of the Cause of Attraction by Suction 8o. London 1674. Some Physico-Theological considerations about the possibility of the Resurrection annex'd to a Discourse entituled The Reconcileableness of Reason and Religion 8o. London 1674 / 1675. A Conjecture concerning the Bladders of Air that are found in Fishes communicated by A. J. and illustrated by an Experiment suggested by the Author in the Philosophical Transactions of April the 26th 1675. A New Essay-Instrument invented and described by the Author together with the Uses thereof in three Parts The first shews the occasion of making it and the Hydrostatical Principles 't is founded on The second describes the Construction of the Instrument The third represents the Uses which as relating to Metals are 1. To discover whether a propos'd Guinea be true or counterfeit 2. To examine divers other Gold Coins and particularly half Guinea's 3. To examine the new English Crown Pieces of Silver 4. To estimate the goodness of Tin and Pewter 5. To estimate Alloys of Gold and Silver and some other Metalline Mixtures All this maketh up the Philosophical Transactions of June 21. 1675. Ten new Experiments about the weaken'd Spring and some unobserved Effects of the Air where occur not only several Tryals to discover whether the Spring of the Air as it may divers ways be increas'd so may not by other ways than Cold or Dilatation be weaken'd but also some odd Experiments to shew the change of Colours producible in some Solutions and Precipitations by the Operation of the Air communicated in the Philosophical Transactions of December the 27th 1675. An Experimental Discourse of Quicksilver growing hot with Gold English and Latin communicated in the Philosophical Transactions of February 21. 1676. Experiments Notes c. about the Mechanical Origine or Production of divers particular Qualities amongst which is inserted a Discourse of the Imperfections of the Chymists Doctrine of Qualities together with some Reflections upon the Hypothesis of Alcali and Acidum 8o. London 1676. This Discourse comprehends Notes c. about the Mechanical Origine and Production Of Cold. Of Heat Of Tasts Of Odours Of Volatility Of Fixtness Of Corrosiveness Of Corrosibility Of Chymical Precipitation Of Magnetical Qualities Of Electricity New Experiments about the superficial Figures of Fluids especially of Liquors contiguous to other Liquors Likely to conduce much to the Physical Theory of the grand System of the World communicated in the Philosophical Transactions of January the 29th 1676 / 1677. A Continuation of the same Experiments in the Philosophical Transactions of February the 26th 1676 / 1677. The Sceptical Chymist of Chymico-Physical Paradoxes touching the Experiments whereby vulgar Spagyrists are wont to endeavour to evince their Salt Sulphur and Mercury to be the true Principles of Things to which in this Second Edition are subjoyn'd divers Experiments and Notes about the Producibleness of Chymical Principles 8o. Oxford 1680. A Second Continuation of new Experiments Physico-Mechanical in which various Experiments touching the Spring of the Air either compress'd or artificial are contain'd with a Description of new Engines to perform them 1680. The Aerial Noctiluca or some new Phoenomena and a Process of a factitious self-shining Substance 8o. London 1680. The Glacial or Icy Noctiluca with a Chymical Paradox founded on new Experiments whence it may be made probable that Chymical Principles may be converted one into another 8o. London 1680. Memoirs for the Natural History of Human Blood especially the Spirit of that Liquor London 1684. Experiments and Considerations about the Porosity of Bodies in two Essays The former of the Porousness of Animal Bodies the other of the Porousness of Solid Bodies 8o. London 1684. Short Memoirs for the Natural Experimental History of Mineral Waters 8o. 1684 / 1685. An Historical account of a strangely self-moving Liquor communicated in the Philosophical Transactions of November the 26th 1685. Of the Reconcileableness of Specifick Medicines to the Corpuscular Philosophy to which is annex'd a Discourse about the advantages of the use of Simple Medicines propos'd by way of Invitation to it 8o. London 1685. An Essay of the great Effects of Languid and unheeded Motion To which is annex'd an Experimental Discourse of some unheeded Causes of the Salubrity and Insalubrity of the Air and its Effects 8o. London 1685. A free Inquiry into the vulgarly receiv'd Notion of Nature in an Essay address'd to a Friend 8o. London 1685 / 1686. A Disquisition about the Final Causes of Natural Things With an Appendix of some Uncommon Observations about vitiated sight 8o London 1687 / 1688. Advertisement Because among those that willingly read the Authors Writings there are some that relish those most as most suitable to their Genius addicted to Religious Studies that treat of Matters relating to Divinity the Publisher thinks fit to gratifie them with a Catalogue of those Theological Books that pass for Mr. Boyles because they were ascrib'd to him and never positively disown'd by him thô such of them as are mark'd with an Asterisk came abroad without having his Name prefix'd to them SEraphic Love five or six times printed but first publish'd in the year 1660. 8o. Considerations about the Style of the Scripture whereof the First Edition was publish'd in the year 1662 in English and afterwards turn'd into and several times printed in Latin 8o. Occasional Reflections on several Subjects with a Preliminary Discourse of the Way of meditating there Exemplifi'd First publish'd in the year 1665 and afterwards turn'd into Latin but not yet printed in that Language 8o. Of the Excellency of the Study of Theology compar'd with that of Natural Philosophy Printed in the year 1674. 8o. Considerations about the Reconcileableness of Reason and Religion To which is annex'd a Discourse about the Possibility of the Resurrection Printed in the year 1675. 8o. A Treatise of Things above Reason To which are annex'd some Advices about things that are said to transcend Reason Printed in the year 1681 in English and afterwards translated into Latin but not yet printed in that Language 8o Of the Veneration that Mans Intellect owes to God. Printed in the year 1685. The Martyrdom of Theodora and of Didymus London 1687. The End.