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title: "Robert Boyle"
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source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Boyle"
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category: "reference"
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tags: "science, encyclopedia"
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date_saved: "2026-05-05T04:05:54.217837+00:00"
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1660 – New Experiments Physico-Mechanical: Touching the Spring of the Air and their Effects
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1661 – The Sceptical Chymist
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1662 – Whereunto is Added a Defence of the Authors Explication of the Experiments, Against the Obiections of Franciscus Linus and Thomas Hobbes (a book-length addendum to the second edition of New Experiments Physico-Mechanical)
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1663 – Considerations touching the Usefulness of Experimental Natural Philosophy (followed by a second part in 1671)
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1664 – Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours, with Observations on a Diamond that Shines in the Dark
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1665 – New Experiments and Observations Touching Cold
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1666 – Hydrostatical Paradoxes
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1666 – Origin of Forms and Qualities according to the Corpuscular Philosophy. (A continuation of his work on the spring of air demonstrated that a reduction in ambient pressure could lead to bubble formation in living tissue. This description of a viper in a vacuum was the first recorded description of decompression sickness.)
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1669 – A Continuation of New Experiments Physico-mechanical, Touching the Spring and Weight of the Air, and Their Effects
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1670 – Tracts about the Cosmical Qualities of Things, the Temperature of the Subterraneal and Submarine Regions, the Bottom of the Sea, &tc. with an Introduction to the History of Particular Qualities
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1672 – Origin and Virtues of Gems
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1673 – Essays of the Strange Subtilty, Great Efficacy, Determinate Nature of Effluviums
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1674 – Two volumes of tracts on the Saltiness of the Sea, Suspicions about the Hidden Realities of the Air, Cold, Celestial Magnets
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1674 – Animadversions upon Mr. Hobbes's Problemata de Vacuo
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1676 – Experiments and Notes about the Mechanical Origin or Production of Particular Qualities, including some notes on electricity and magnetism
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1678 – Observations upon an artificial Substance that Shines without any Preceding Illustration
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1680 – The Aerial Noctiluca
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1682 – New Experiments and Observations upon the Icy Noctiluca (a further continuation of his work on the air)
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1684 – Memoirs for the Natural History of the Human Blood
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1685 – Short Memoirs for the Natural Experimental History of Mineral Waters
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1686 – A Free Enquiry into the Vulgarly Received Notion of Nature
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1690 – Medicina Hydrostatica
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1691 – Experimenta et Observationes Physicae
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Among his religious and philosophical writings were:
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1648 (1659) – Some Motives and Incentives to the Love of God, often known by its running head Seraphic Love, written in 1648, but not published until 1659
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1663 – Some Considerations Touching the Style of the H[oly] Scriptures
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1664 – Excellence of Theology compared with Natural Philosophy
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1665 – Occasional Reflections upon Several Subjects, which was ridiculed by Swift in Meditation Upon a Broomstick, and by Butler in An Occasional Reflection on Dr Charlton's Feeling a Dog's Pulse at Gresham College
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1675 – Some Considerations about the Reconcileableness of Reason and Religion, with a Discourse about the Possibility of the Resurrection
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1687 – The Martyrdom of Theodora, and of Didymus, major source for Handel's Oratorio Theodora
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1690 – The Christian Virtuoso
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== See also ==
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Ambrose Godfrey – German-English chemist (1660–1741), phosphorus manufacturer who started as Boyle's assistant
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An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump – 1768 oil-on-canvas painting by Joseph Wright of Derby, a painting of a demonstration of one of Boyle's experiments
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Boyle temperature – Thermodynamic property of real gas, thermodynamic quantity named after Boyle
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George Starkey – Colonial American alchemist, medical practitioner and writer
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Invisible College – Informal group of scholars, as in Royal Society of London's precursor groups
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== References ==
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== Further reading ==
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== External links ==
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Robert Boyle, Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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Works by or about Robert Boyle at the Internet Archive
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Works by Robert Boyle at the Biodiversity Heritage Library
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Readable versions of Excellence of the mechanical hypothesis, Excellence of theology, and Origin of forms and qualities
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Robert Boyle Project, Birkbeck, University of London
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Summary juxtaposition of Boyle's The Sceptical Chymist and his The Christian Virtuoso
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The Relationship between Science and Scripture in the Thought of Robert Boyle
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Robert Boyle and His Alchemical Quest: Including Boyle's "Lost" Dialogue on the Transmutation of Metals, Princeton University Press, 1998, ISBN 0-691-05082-1
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Robert Boyle's (1690) Experimenta et considerationes de coloribus Archived 26 November 2018 at the Wayback Machine – digital facsimile from the Linda Hall Library |