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Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, and inventor

Born	1627
Died	1691

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The Sceptical Chymist. Everyman's Library No. 559

by Robert Boyle First published in 1661 — 72 editions
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Experiments and considerations touching colours. First occasionally written among some other essays, to a friend; and now suffer'd to come abroad as the beginning of an experimental history of colours

by Robert Boyle First published in 1664 — 20 editions
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An essay about the origine & virtues of gems: Wherein are propos'd and historically illustrated some conjectures about the consistence of the matter of precious stones, and the subjects wherein their chiefest virtues reside. By the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esq; Fellow of the Royal Society

by Robert Boyle First published in 1672 — 19 editions
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Some motives and incentives to the love of God: pathetically discours'd of in a letter to a friend.

by Robert Boyle First published in 1659 — 16 editions

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An examen of Mr. T. Hobbs, his Dialogus physicus de naturâ aëris: as far as it concerns Mr. R. Boyle's book of New experiments touching the spring of the air, &c. : with an appendix touching Mr. Hobbs's Doctrine of fluidity and firmness

by Robert Boyle First published in 1661 — 16 editions

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A continuation of new experiments physico-mechanical, touching the spring and weight of the air, and their effects: wherein are contained divers experiments made both in compressed and also in factitious air, about fire, animals, &c. : together with a description of the engines wherein they were made

by Robert Boyle First published in 1669 — 14 editions

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The laws of gases: memoirs

by Carl Barus, Émile Hilaire Amagat, and Robert Boyle First published in 1899 — 11 editions
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New experiments physico-mechanicall, touching the springof the air and its effects: (made for the most part) in a new pneumatical engine

by Robert Boyle First published in 1660 — 8 editions

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Some considerations touching the usefulnesse of experimental naturall philosophy

by Robert Boyle First published in 1663 — 8 editions

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Tracts: containing I. Suspicions about some hidden qualities of the air; with an appendix touching celestial magnets, and some other particulars. II. Animadversions upon Mr. Hobbes's Problemata de vacuo. III. A discourse of the cause of attraction by suction.

by Robert Boyle First published in 1617 — 8 editions
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Treatises on the high veneration man's intellect owes to God: on things above reason : and on the style of the Holy Scriptures

by Robert Boyle and Henry Rogers First published in 1835 — 7 editions
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The works of Robert Boyle

by Robert Boyle First published in 1999 — 7 editions

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The works of the Honourable Robert Boyle: In six volumes. To which is prefixed The life of the author. ...

by Robert Boyle First published in 1744 — 7 editions

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A disquisition about the final causes of natural things: wherein it is inquir'd, whether, and, (if at all), with what cautions, a naturalist should admit them?

by Robert Boyle First published in 1688 — 6 editions
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Some considerations touching the style of the H. Scriptures: extracted from the several parts of a discourse, concerning divers particulars belonging to the Bible, written divers years since to a friend

by Robert Boyle First published in 1663 — 6 editions

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Tracts written by the Honourable Robert Boyle: containing New experiments, touching the relation betwixt flame and air, and about explosions, an hydrostatical discourse occasion'd by some objections of Dr. Henry More against some explications of new experiments made by the author of these tracts : to which is annex't, An hydrostatical letter, dilucidating an experiment about a way of weighing water in water, new experiments, of the positive or relative levity of bodies under water, of the air's spring on bodies under water, about the differing pressure of heavy solids and fluids

by Robert Boyle First published in 1670 — 6 editions

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Reasons why a Protestant should not turn Papist: or, Protestant prejudices against the Roman Catholic religion; propos'd, in a letter to a Romish priest

by Robert Boyle First published in 1687 — 6 editions
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Occasional reflections upon several subjects: With a discourse about such kind of thoughts

by Robert Boyle First published in 1848 — 5 editions
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Essays of the strange subtilty, great efficacy, determinate nature of effluviums: to which are annext New experiments to make fire and flame ponderable, together with A discovery of the perviousness of glass

by Robert Boyle First published in 1673 — 5 editions

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Experiments, notes, &c., about the mechanical origine or production of divers particular qualities: among which is inserted a discourse of the imperfection of the chymist's doctrine of qualities; together with some reflections upon the hypothesis of alcali and acidum.

by Robert Boyle First published in 1675 — 5 editions
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Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, and inventor

Born	1627
Died	1691

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OLID: OL26425A
ISNI: 0000000109002537
Library of Congress Names: n79006775
Project Gutenberg: 5554
SBN/ICCU (National Library Service of Italy): CFIV059459
VIAF: 51698379
Wikidata: Q43393
Inventaire.io: wd:Q43393

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Boyle, Robert, Hon., 1627-1691.
Boyle, S.J., Robert
Robert Boyle Boyle
Robert 1627-1691 Boyle
R Boyle
The Honourable Robert Boyle

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